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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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lsmoking ashes. Along a water-course, which poured its tribute into thelake, the devastating fire had been arrested; and the chiefof the tribe gave us to understand that this was very fortu-nate for our projects, since on the other side we shouldfind the country where we were going to hunt. Rahm-o-j-or, however, was of opinion that it would be prudent towait a day longer on the mountain, so that the fire mightcompletely die out. On a rocky soil, thinly covered with a short hard grass,the Sioux pitched their tents; and while Duquesne,Bonnet, and Gemmel occupied themselves with the detailsof our household economy, Messrs. Simonton, Sears, andmyself resolved to visit the boundaries of the clifi-girtisland in which the fire had compelled us to seek anasylum. On the prairie side the mountain was separatedfrom the shore only by a very shallow and narrow channel,which we had easily forded; but, on advancing towardsthe north-west, the lake spread out its waters for upwards 360 THE GREAT LAKE.
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CLOUDS OF PENGUINS AND GULLS ESCAPED. of a league; and on its surface, smooth and glassy, aquaticbiids hovered in such numbers as to obscure the light. THE RETREAT OF THE HERONS. 361 By following a difficult and almost impracticable routealong the shore, my comrades and I arrived at the foot ofa precipitous cliff, bathed by the waters of the lake. Anastonishing spectacle was here presented ! From everyledge and fissure of the rock clouds of penguins and gullsescaped, their white breasts and black wings sparklingin the sun. These birds opened their slender beaks anduttered sob-like cries. Some herons had also chosen a resting-place on thisgranite rock, in whose interstices the dead branchesresembled sticks planted in the soil. A layer of mossand clay covered them, and on this slippery support restedthe noble birds, near a nest woven of slender twigs, inwhich the young herons received from the bills of theirparents their accustomed nourishment. We countedseventy-two, pressing one agains

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