Canadian Wilds: Tells About the Hudson's Bay Company, Northern Indians and Their Modes of Hunting, Trapping, Etc.

The Hudson's Bay Company

The Free Trader

Outfitting Indians

Trackers of the North

Provisions for the Wilderness

Forts and Posts

About Indians

Wholesome Foods

Officers' Allowance

Inland Packs

Indian Mode of Hunting Beaver

Indian Mode of Hunting Lynx and Marten

Indian Mode of Hunting Foxes

Indian Mode of Hunting Otter and Musquash

Remarkable Success

Things to Avoid

Anticosti and Its Furs

Chiselling and Shooting Beaver

The "Indian Devil"

A Tame Seal

The Care of Blistered Feet

Deer Sickness

A Case of Nerve

Amphibious Combats

Art of Pulling Hearts

Dark Furs

Indians Are Poor Shots

A Bear in the Water

Voracious Pike

The Brass-Eyed Duck

Good Wages Trapping

A Pard Necessary

An Heroic Adventure

Wild Oxen

Long Lake Indians

Den Bears

The Mishaps of Ralson

INTRODUCTION. By the courtesy of Forest and Stream and Hunter-Trader-Trapper these articles are republished in book form by the author.

I have been induced to bring them out a second time under one cover by the frequent requests of my fellow bushmen who were kind enough to criticise them favorably when they first appeared in the magazine.

In this preamble I think it proper and possibly interesting to the reader to have a short synopsis of my career.

I entered the service of the Hudson's Bay Company in 1863 as a clerk and retired in 1903 a commissioned officer of twenty years' standing.

The modes of Trapping and Hunting were learned directly by personal participation in the chase with the Indians and the other stories heard first hand from the red man.

My service in the employ of the Great Fur Company extended from Labrador in the East to Fort William on Lake Superior in the West and from the valley of the St. Lawrence in the South to the headwaters of its feeders in the North.

By canoes and snowshoes I have traveled on the principal large rivers flowing south from the height of land, among them I may mention the Moisee, Bersimis, St. Maurice, Ottawa, Michipocoten, Pic and Nepigon.

I have hunted, trapped and traded with the Montagnais, Algonquins and Ojibways, the three largest tribes that inhabit the country mentioned in the foregoing boundaries and therefore the reader can place implicit reliance in what is herein set forth. Giving a synopsis of the history of The Hudson's Bay Company, its Forts and Posts and the Indians they traded with as well as other incidents of the Canadian wilds. Respectfully, MARTIN HUNTER.