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Title: The hunter and the trapper in North America ; or, Romantic adventures in field and forest. From the French of Bénédict Révoil
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Révoil, Bénédict Henry, 1816-1882 Adams, W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport), 1828-1891
Subjects: Hunting Game and game-birds
Publisher: London, New York : T. Nelson and Sons
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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o, rendered them so brilliant, whenthe sun rose above the horizon, that it seemed as if wehad suddenly entered a forest of crystal. At our feet thoMississippi rolled its bluish waters, whirling and eddyinground drifting snow-white icebergs. After having made numerous signals, we saw a boatthrow off its moorings, and gradually make its wayacross the stream, through the sinuous channels formedby the floating ice. Thanks to efforts almost herculean,the two men who rowed her succeeded in reaching us,and we explained to them the object of our summons.As soon as we had struck a bargain with them, they re-sumed their dangerous course, promising to return thesame evening. That we might utilize to the best advantage the longand dreary interval, my friend and I agreed to explorethe environs and fill our game-bags. We might thus be A MORNING S BOOTY, 105 able, on regaining the encampment, to offer somethingbesides bread to our friendly Indians. We set out, therefore, on the hunt, and before noon
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**BY DINT OF HARNESSING OURSELVES TO IT IN TURN. had bagged a score of snipes and two magnificentmoor-hens. According to agreement, the two boatmen returned at 106 DIES DIEM SEQUITUR. sunset with a barrel of wlieaten flour, several large loavesof bread, and a bag of maize. All this was placed on ahastily-constructed sledge ; and by dint of harnessingourselves to it in turn, we arrived about midnight, safeand sound, and not over-weary, at the camp of theOsages, and in front of our log-cabin. Meantime the Mississippi began to decrease, and theice, receding with the level of the water, imperilled ourkeel-boat. As an useful precaution we lightened it, withthe help of the Indian women, of its heavier stores; and,with some trunks of trees, which we felled for the pur-pose, we constructed around it a kind of jetty, to protectit from collisions. After these arrangements had been completed, our daysrolled joyously by; and our numerous sporting expedi-tions provided us with so much game that th

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