Ernest Thompson Seton
The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou
Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664632227
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I
Part of my plan was to leave a provision cache every hundred. miles, with enough food to carry us 200 miles, and thus cover the. possibility of considerable loss. I had left supplies at Chipewyan,. Smith, and Resolution, but these were settlements; now we were. pushing off into the absolute wilderness, where it was unlikely. we should see any human beings but ourselves. Now, indeed, we. were facing all primitive conditions. Other travellers have made. similar plans for food stores, but there are three deadly enemies. to a cache—weather, ravens, and wolverines., I was prepared for. all three. Water-proof leatheroid cases were to turn the storm,. dancing tins and lines will scare the ravens, and each cache tree. was made unclimbable to Wolverines by the addition of a necklace of. charms in the form of large fish-hooks, all nailed on with points. downward. This idea, borrowed from, Tyrrell, has always proved a. success; and not one of our caches was touched or injured.
PREFACE
What young man of our race would not gladly give a year of his life to roll backward the scroll of time for five decades and live that year in the romantic bygone-days of the Wild