Three months passed away, but the snow still lay deep and white and undiminished around York Fort. Winter—cold, silent, unyielding winter—still drew its white mantle3 closely round the lonely dwelling4 of the fur-traders of the Far North.
Icicles hung, as they had done for months before, from the eaves of every house, from the tall black scaffold on which the great bell hung, and from the still taller erection that had been put up as an outlook for “the ship” in summer. At the present time it commanded a bleak5 view of the frozen sea. Snow covered every housetop, and hung in ponderous6 masses from their edges, as if it were about to fall; but it never fell—it hung there in the same position day after day, unmelted, unchanged. Snow covered the whole land, and the frozen river, the swamps, the sea-beach, and the sea itself, as far as the eye could reach, seemed like a pure white carpet. Snow lined the upper edge of every paling, filled up the key-hole of every door, embanked about half of every window, stuck in little knobs on the top of every picket7, and clung in masses on every drooping8 branch of the pine trees in the forest. Frost—sharp, biting frost—solidified, surrounded, and pervaded9 everything. Mercury was congealed10 by it; vapour was condensed by it; iron was cooled by it until it could scarcely be touched without (as the men expressed it) “burning” the fingers. The water-jugs in Bachelors’ Hall and the water-buckets were frozen by it, nearly to the bottom; though there was a good stove there, and the Hall was not usually a cold place by any means. The breath of the inhabitants was congealed by it on the window-panes, until they had become coated with ice an inch thick. The breath of the men was rendered white and opaque11 by it, as they panted and hurried to and fro about their ordinary avocations12; beating their gloved hands together, and stamping their well-wrapped-up feet on the hard-beaten snow to keep them warm. Old Robin’s nose seemed to be entirely13 shrivelled up into his face by it, as he drove his ox-cart to the river to fetch his daily supply of water. The only things that were not affected14 by it were the fires, which crackled and roared as if in laughter, and twisted and leaped as if in uncontrollable glee at the bare idea of John Frost acquiring, by any artifice15 whatever, the smallest possible influence over them! Three months had elapsed, but frost and snow, instead of abating16, had gone on increasing and intensifying17, deepening and extending its work, and riveting18 its chains. Winter—cold silent, unyielding winter—still reigned20 at York Fort, as though it had made it a sine qua non of its existence at all that it should reign19 there for ever!
But although everything was thus wintry and cold, it was by no means cheerless or dreary21. A bright sun shone in the blue heavens with an intenseness of brilliancy that was quite dazzling to the eyes, that elated the spirits, and caused man and beast to tread with a more elastic22 step than usual. Although the sun looked down upon the scene with an unclouded face, and found a mirror in every icicle and in every gem23 of hoar-frost with which the objects of nature were loaded, there was, however, no perceptible heat in his rays. They fell on the white earth with all the brightness of midsummer, but they fell powerless as moonbeams in the dead of winter.
On the frozen river, just in front of the gate of the fort, a group of men and dogs were assembled. The dogs were four in number, harnessed to a small flat sledge24 of the slender kind used by Indians to drag their furs and provisions over the snow. The group of men was composed of Mr Rogan and the inmates25 of Bachelors’ Hall, one or two men who happened to be engaged there at the time in cutting a new water-hole in the ice, and an Indian, who, to judge from his carefully-adjusted costume, the snow-shoes on his feet, and the short whip in his hand, was the driver of the sledge, and was about to start on a journey. Harry Somerville and young Hamilton were also wrapped up more carefully than usual.
“Good-bye, then, good-bye,” said Mr Rogan, advancing towards the Indian, who stood beside the leading dog, ready to start. “Take care of our young friends—they’ve not had much experience in travelling yet; and don’t overdrive your dogs. Treat them well, and they’ll do more work. They’re like men in that respect.” Mr Rogan shook the Indian by the hand, and the latter immediately flourished the whip and gave a shout, which the dogs no sooner heard than they uttered a simultaneous yell, sprang forward with a jerk, and scampered26 up the river, closely followed by their dark-skinned driver.
“Now, lads, farewell,” said the old gentleman, turning with a kindly27 smile to our two friends, who were shaking hands for the last time with their comrades. “I’m sorry you’re going to leave us, my boys. You’ve done your duty well while here, and I would willingly have kept you a little longer with me, but our governor wills it otherwise. However, I trust that you’ll be happy wherever you may be sent. Don’t forget to write to me. God bless you. Farewell.”
Mr Rogan shook them heartily28 by the hand, turned short round, and walked slowly up to his house, with an expression of sadness on his mild face; while Harry and Hamilton, having once more waved farewell to their friends, marched up the river, side by side, in silence. They followed the track left by the dog-sledge, which guided them with unerring certainty, although their Indian leader and his team were out of sight in advance.
A week previous to this time an Indian arrived from the interior, bearing a letter from headquarters, which directed that Messrs Somerville and Hamilton should be forthwith dispatched on snow-shoes to Norway House. As this establishment is about three hundred miles from the sea-coast, the order involved a journey of nearly two weeks’ duration through a country that was utterly29 destitute30 of inhabitants. On receiving a command from Mr Rogan to prepare for an early start. Harry retired31 precipitately32 to his own room, and there, after cutting unheard-of capers33, and giving vent34 to sudden incomprehensible shouts, all indicative of the highest state of delight, he condescended35 to tell his companions of his good fortune, and set about preparations without delay. Hamilton, on the contrary, gave his usual quiet smile on being informed of his destination, and returning somewhat pensively36 to Bachelors’ Hall, proceeded leisurely37 to make the necessary arrangements for departure. As the time drew on, however, a perpetual flush on his countenance38, and an unusual brilliancy about his eye, showed that he was not quite insensible to the pleasures of a change, and relished39 the idea more than he got credit for. The Indian who had brought the letter was ordered to hold himself in readiness to retrace40 his steps and conduct the young men through the woods to Norway House, where they were to await further orders. A few days later the three travellers, as already related, set out on their journey.
After walking a mile up the river, they passed a point of land which shut out the fort from view. Here they paused to take a last look, and then pressed forward in silence, the thoughts of each being busy with mingled41 recollections of their late home and anticipations42 of the future. After an hour’s sharp walking they came in sight of the guide, and slackened their pace.
“Well, Hamilton,” said Harry, throwing off his reverie with a deep sigh, “are you glad to leave York Fort, or sorry?”
“Glad, undoubtedly,” replied Hamilton, “but sorry to part from our old companions there. I had no idea, Harry, that I loved them all so much. I feel as if I should be glad were the order for us to leave them countermanded43 even now.”
“That’s the very thought,” said Harry, “that was passing through my own brain when I spoke44 to you. Yet, somehow, I think I should be uncommonly45 sorry after all if we were really sent back. There’s a queer contradiction, Hammy: we’re sorry and happy at the same time! If I were the skipper now, I would found a philosophical46 argument upon it.”
“Which the skipper would carry on with untiring vigour47,” said Hamilton, smiling, “and afterwards make an entry of in his log. But I think, Harry, that to feel the emotion of sorrow and joy at the same time is not such a contradiction as it at first appears.”
“Perhaps not,” replied Harry, “but it seems very contradictory48 to me; and yet it’s an evident fact, for I’m very sorry to leave them, and I’m very happy to have you for my companion here.”
“So am I, so am I,” said the other heartily. “I would rather travel with you, Harry, than with any of our late companions, although I like them all very much.”
The two friends had grown, almost imperceptibly, in each other’s esteem49 during their residence under the same roof, more than either of them would have believed possible. The gay, reckless hilarity50 of the one did not at first accord with the quiet gravity and, as his comrades styled it, softness of the other. But character is frequently misjudged at first sight, and sometimes men who on a first acquaintance have felt repelled51 from each other have, on coming to know each other better, discovered traits and good qualities that ere long formed enduring bonds of sympathy, and have learned to love those whom at first they felt disposed to dislike or despise. Thus Harry soon came to know that what he at first thought and, along with his companions, called softness in Hamilton was in reality gentleness of disposition52 and thorough good-nature, united in one who happened to be utterly unacquainted with the knowing ways of this peculiarly sharp and clever world, while in the course of time new qualities showed themselves in a quiet, unobtrusive way that won upon his affections and raised his esteem. On the other hand, Hamilton found that, although Harry was volatile54, and possessed55 of an irresistible56 tendency to fun and mischief57, he never by any chance gave way to anger, or allowed malice58 to enter into his practical jokes. Indeed, he often observed him restrain his natural tendencies when they were at all likely to give pain, though Harry never dreamed that such efforts were known to any one but himself. Besides this, Harry was peculiarly unselfish, and when a man is possessed of this inestimable disposition, he is not quite but very nearly perfect!
After another pause, during which the party had left the open river and directed their course through the woods, where the depth of the snow obliged them to tread in each other’s footsteps, Harry resumed the conversation.
“You have not yet told me, by-the-bye, what old Mr Rogan said to you just before we started. Did he give you any hint as to where you might be sent to after reaching Norway House?”
“No; he merely said he knew that clerks were wanted both for Mackenzie River and the Saskatchewan districts, but he did not know which I was destined59 for.”
“Hum! exactly what he said to me, with the slight addition that he strongly suspected that Mackenzie River would be my doom60. Are you aware, Hammy, my boy, that the Saskatchewan district is a sort of terrestrial paradise, and Mackenzie River equivalent to Botany Bay?”
“I have heard as much during our conversations in Bachelors’ Hall, but—Stop a bit, Harry; these snow-shoe lines of mine have got loosened with tearing through this deep snow and these shockingly thick bushes. There—they are right now; go on. I was going to say that I don’t—oh!”
This last exclamation61 was elicited62 from Hamilton by a sharp blow caused by a branch which, catching63 on part of Harry’s dress as he plodded64 on in front, suddenly rebounded65 and struck him across the face. This is of common occurrence in travelling through the woods, especially to those who from inexperience walk too closely on the heels of their companions.
“What’s wrong now, Hammy?” inquired his friend, looking over his shoulder.
“Oh, nothing worth mentioning—rather a sharp blow from a branch, that’s all.”
“Well, proceed; you’ve interrupted yourself twice in what you were going to say. Perhaps it’ll come out if you try it a third time.”
“I was merely going to say that I don’t much care where I am sent to, so long as it is not to an outpost where I shall be all alone.”
“All very well, my friend; but seeing that outposts are, in comparison with principal forts, about a hundred to one, your chance of avoiding them is rather slight. However, our youth and want of experience is in our favour, as they like to send men who have seen some service to outposts. But I fear that, with such brilliant characters as you and I, Hammy, youth will only be an additional recommendation, and inexperience won’t last long.—Hollo! what’s going on yonder?”
Harry pointed66 as he spoke to an open spot in the woods about a quarter of a mile in advance, where a dark object was seen lying on the snow, writhing67 about, now coiling into a lump, and anon extending itself like a huge snake in agony.
As the two friends looked, a prolonged howl floated towards them.
“Something wrong with the dogs, I declare!” cried Harry.
“No doubt of it,” replied his friend, hurrying forward, as they saw their Indian guide rise from the ground and flourish his whip energetically, while the howls rapidly increased.
A few minutes brought them to the scene of action, where they found the dogs engaged in a fight among themselves, and the driver, in a state of vehement68 passion, alternately belabouring and trying to separate them. Dogs in these regions, like the dogs of all other regions, we suppose, are very much addicted69 to fighting—a propensity70 which becomes extremely unpleasant if indulged while the animals are in harness, as they then become peculiarly savage71, probably from their being unable, like an ill-assorted pair in wedlock72, to cut or break the ties that bind73 them. Moreover, they twist the traces into such an ingeniously complicated mass that it renders disentanglement almost impossible, even after exhaustion74 has reduced them to obedience75. Besides this, they are so absorbed in worrying each other that for the time they are utterly regardless of their driver’s lash76 or voice. This naturally makes the driver angry, and sometimes irascible men practise shameful77 cruelties on the poor dogs. When the two friends came up they found the Indian glaring at the animals, as they fought and writhed78 in the snow, with every lineament of his swarthy face distorted with passion, and panting from his late exertions79. Suddenly he threw himself on the dogs again, and lashed81 them furiously with the whip. Finding that this had no effect, he twined the lash round his hand, and struck them violently over their heads and snouts with the handle; then falling down on his knees, he caught the most savage of the animals by the throat, and seizing its nose between his teeth almost bit it off. The appalling82 yell that followed this cruel act seemed to subdue83 the dogs, for they ceased to fight, and crouched84, whining85, in the snow.
With a bound like a tiger young Hamilton sprang upon the guide, and seizing him by the throat, hurled86 him violently to the ground. “Scoundrel!” he cried, standing87 over the crestfallen88 Indian with flushed face and flashing eyes, “how dare you thus treat the creatures of God?”
The young man would have spoken more, but his indignation was so fierce that it could not find vent in words. For a moment he raised his fist, as if he meditated89 dashing the Indian again to the ground as he slowly arose; then, as if changing his mind, he seized him by the back of the neck, thrust him towards the panting dogs, and stood in silence over him with the whip grasped firmly in his hand, while he disentangled the traces.
This accomplished90, Hamilton ordered him in a voice of suppressed anger to “go forward”—an order which the cowed guide promptly91 obeyed, and in a few minutes more the two friends were again alone.
“Hamilton, my boy,” exclaimed Harry, who up to this moment seemed to have been petrified92, “you have perfectly93 amazed me! I’m utterly bewildered.”
“Indeed, I fear that I have been very violent,” said Hamilton, blushing deeply.
“Violent!” exclaimed his friend. “Why, man, I’ve completely mistaken your character. I—I—”
“I hope not, Harry,” said Hamilton, in a subdued94 tone; “I hope not. Believe me, I am not naturally violent. I should be very sorry were you to think so. Indeed, I never felt thus before, and now that it is over I am amazed at myself; but surely you’ll admit that there was great provocation95. Such terrible cruelty to—”
“My dear fellow, you quite misunderstand me. I’m amazed at your pluck, your energy. Soft, indeed! we have been most egregiously96 mistaken. Provocation! I just think you had; my only sorrow is that you didn’t give him a little more.”
“Come, come, Harry; I see you would be as cruel to him as he was to the poor dog. But let us press forward; it is already growing dark, and we must not let the fellow out of sight ahead of us.”
“Allons, donc,” cried Harry; and hastening their steps, they travelled silently and rapidly among the stems of the trees, while the shades of night gathered slowly round them.
That night the three travellers encamped in the snow under the shelter of a spreading pine. The encampment was formed almost exactly in a similar manner to that in which they had slept on the night of their exploits at North River. They talked less, however, than on that occasion, and slept more soundly. Before retiring to rest, and while Harry was extended, half asleep and half awake, on his green blanket, enjoying the delightful97 repose98 that follows a hard day’s march and a good supper, Hamilton drew near to the Indian, who sat sullenly100 smoking a little apart from the young men. Sitting down beside him, he administered a long rebuke101 in a low, grave tone of voice. Like rebukes102 generally, it had the effect of making the visage of the Indian still more sullen99. But the young man did not appear to notice this; he still continued to talk. As he went on, the look grew less and less sullen, until it faded entirely away, and was succeeded by the grave, quiet, respectful expression peculiar53 to the face of the North American Indian.
Day succeeded day, night followed night, and still found them plodding103 laboriously104 through the weary waste of snow, or encamping under the trees of the forest. The two friends went through all the varied105 stages of experience which are included in what is called “becoming used to the work,” which is sometimes a modified meaning of the expression “used up.” They started with a degree of vigour that one would have thought no amount of hard work could possibly abate106. They became aware of the melancholy107 fact that fatigue108 unstrings the youngest and toughest sinews. They pressed on, however, from stern necessity, and found, to their delight, that young muscles recover their elasticity109 even in the midst of severe exertion80. They still pressed on, and discovered, to their dismay, that this recovery was only temporary, and that the second state of exhaustion was infinitely110 worse than the first. Still they pressed on, and raised blisters111 on their feet and toes that caused them to limp woefully; then they learned that blisters break and take a long time to heal, and are much worse to walk upon during the healing process than they are at the commencement—at which time they innocently fancied that nothing could be more dreadful. Still they pressed on day after day, and found to their satisfaction that such things can be endured and overcome; that feet and toes can become hard like leather, that muscles can grow tough as india-rubber, and that spirits and energy can attain112 to a pitch of endurance which nothing within the compass of a day’s march can by any possibility overcome. They found also, from experience, that their conversation changed, both in manner and subject, as they progressed on their journey. At first they conversed113 frequently and on various topics, chiefly on the probability of their being sent to pleasant places or the reverse. Then they spoke less frequently, and growled114 occasionally, as they advanced in the painful process of training. After that, as they began to get hardy115, they talked of the trees, the snow, the ice, the tracks of wild animals they happened to cross, and the objects of nature generally that came under their observation. Then as their muscles hardened and their sinews grew tough, and the day’s march at length became first a matter of indifference116, and ultimately an absolute pleasure, they chatted cheerily on any and every subject, or sang occasionally, when the sun shone out and cast an appearance of warmth across their path. Thus onward117 they pressed, without halt or stay, day after day, through wood and brake, over river and lake, on ice and on snow, for miles and miles together, through the great, uninhabited, frozen wilderness118.
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