As if to make amends3 for its late outrageous4 conduct, the weather, after the night of the great storm, continued unbrokenly serene5 for many days, enabling our travellers to make rapid progress towards their destination: It would be both tiresome6 and unnecessary to follow them step by step throughout their journey, as the part of it which we have already described was, in many respects, typical of the whole voyage along the east coast of Hudson’s Bay. Sometimes, indeed, a few incidents of an unusual character did occur. Once they were very nearly being crushed between masses of ice; twice the larger canoe struck on a hummock7, and had to be landed and repaired; and frequently mishaps8 of a slighter nature befell them. Their beds, too, varied9 occasionally. At one time they laid them down to rest on the sand of the sea-shore; at another, on the soft turf and springy moss10 of the woods. Sometimes they were compelled to content themselves with a couch of pebbles11, few of which were smaller than a man’s fist; and, not unfrequently, they had to make the best they could of a flat rock, whose unyielding surface seemed to put the idea of anything like rest to flight, causing the thin men of the party to growl13 and the fat ones to chuckle14. Bryan was one of the well-favoured, being round and fleshy; while his poor little friend La Roche possessed15 a framework of bones that were so sparingly covered with softer substance, as to render it a matter of wonder how he and the stones could compromise the matter at all, and called forth16 from his friend frequent impertinent allusions17 to “thridpapers, bags o’ bones, idges o’ knives, half fathoms19 o’ pump water,” and such like curious substances. But whatever the bed, it invariably turned out that the whole party slept soundly from the time they lay down till the time of rising, which was usually at the break of day.
Owing to the little Indian canoe having been wrecked20 on the sand-bank, Frank and his men had to embark21 in the smaller of the large canoes; a change which was in some respects a disadvantage to the party, as Frank could not now so readily dash away in pursuit of game. However, this did not much matter, as, in a few days afterwards, they arrived at the mouth of the river by which they intended to penetrate22 into the interior of the country. The name of the river is Deer River, and it flows into Richmond Gulf23, which is situated24 on the east shore of Hudson’s Bay, in latitude25 56 degrees North. Richmond Gulf is twenty miles long, and about the same in breadth; but the entrance to it is so narrow that the tide pours into it like a torrent26 until it is full. The pent-up waters then rush out on one side of this narrow inlet while they are running in at the other, causing a whirlpool which would engulf27 a large boat and greatly endanger even a small vessel28. Of course it was out of the question to attempt the passage of such a vortex in canoes, except at half flood or half ebb12 tide, at which periods the waters became quiet. On arriving at the mouth of the gulf, the travellers found the tide out and the entrance to it curling and rolling in massive volumes, as if all the evil water-spirits of the north were holding their orgies there. Oostesimow and Ma-Istequan, being by nature and education intensely superstitious, told Stanley—after they had landed to await the flow of the tide—that it was absolutely necessary to perform certain ceremonies in order to propitiate29 the deities30 of the place, otherwise they could not expect to pass such an awful whirlpool in safety. Their leader smiled, and told them to do as they thought fit, adding, however, that he would not join them, as he did not believe in any deities whatever, except the one true God, who did not require to be propitiated31 in any way, and could not be moved by any other means than by prayer in the name of Jesus Christ. The red men seemed surprised a little at this, but, with their proverbial stoicism, refrained from any further or more decided32 expression of feeling.
Nevertheless, the Indians sufficiently33 showed their faith in their own doctrines34 by immediately setting about a series of curious and elaborate ceremonies, which it was impossible to comprehend, and decidedly unprofitable to describe. They appeared, however, to attach much importance to their propitiatory35 offerings, the chief among which seemed to be a few inches of tobacco, with which it was fondly hoped the deities of the gulf would condescend36 to smoke the pipe of peace while their red children ventured to trespass38 a little on their domain39; and hard indeed must have been the hearts of the said spirits had they refused so valuable an offering, for tobacco is the life and marrow40, the quintessence of terrestrial felicity, the very joy and comfort of a voyageur, and the poor Indians had but little of it to spare.
While this was going on, Bryan stood with his back to the fire, a remarkably41 short and peculiarly black pipe in his mouth, and his head inclined sagaciously to one side, as if he designed, by dint43 of a combination of intense mental abstraction, partial closing of his eyes, severe knitting of his brows, and slow but exceedingly voluminous emission44 of smoke, to come to a conclusion in regard to the unfathomable subject of Indian superstition45. La Roche, steeped in unphilosophic indifference46 on such matters, and keenly alive to the gross cravings of hunger, busied himself in concocting47 a kettle of soup; while the rest of the party rambled48 about the beach or among the bushes in search of eggs. In this latter search Frank and Edith were very successful, and returned with pockets laden49 with excellent eggs of the eider-duck, which were immediately put into the kettle, and tended not a little to increase the excellence50 of the soup and the impatience51 of the men.
Meanwhile the tide rose, the power of the current was gradually checked, and towards noon they passed the dangerous narrows in safety. From the view that was now obtained of the interior, it became evident that the worst of their journey yet lay before them. On arriving at the mouth of Deer River, the mountains were seen to rise abruptly52 and precipitously, while far away inland their faint blue peaks rose into the sky. Indeed from this point the really hard work of the voyage may be said to have commenced; for scarcely had they proceeded a few miles up the river, when their further progress, at least by water, was effectually interrupted by a rapid which came leaping madly down its rocky bed, as if the streams rejoiced to escape from the chasms53 and mountain gorges54, and find rest at last on the ample bosom55 of the great deep.
“What think ye of that, boy?” said Stanley to Frank Morton, as they leaped from their respective canoes, and stood gazing at the rugged56 glen from which the rapid issued, and the wild appearance of the hills beyond. “It seems to me that report spoke57 truly when it said that the way to Clearwater Lake was rugged. Here is no despicable portage to begin with; and yonder cliffs, that look so soft and blue in the far distance, will prove to be dark and hard enough when we get at them, I warrant.”
“When we get at them!” echoed Mrs Stanley, as she approached, leading Edith by the hand. “Get at them, George! Had any one asked me if it were possible to pass over these mountains with our canoes and cargoes58, I should have answered, ‘Decidedly not!’”
“And yet you were so foolish and reckless as to be the first to volunteer for this decidedly impossible expedition!” replied Stanley.
“There you are inconsistent,” said Mrs Stanley, smiling. “If reckless, I cannot be foolish, according to your own showing; for I have heard you give it as your opinion that recklessness is one of the most essential elements in the leaders of a forlorn hope. But really the thing does seem to my ignorant mind impossible.—What think you, Eda?”
Mrs Stanley bent60 down and looked into the face of her child, but she received no reply. The expanded eyes, indeed, spoke volumes; and the parted lips, on which played a fitful, exulting61 smile, the heightened colour, and thick-coming breath, told eloquently62 of her anticipated delight in these new regions, which seemed so utterly63 different from the shores of the bay: but her tongue was mute.
And well might Mrs Stanley think the passage over these mountains impossible; for, except to men accustomed to canoe travelling in the American lakes and rivers, such an attempt would have appeared as hopeless as the passage of a ship through the ice-locked polar seas in winter.
Not so thought the men. Already several of the most active of them were scrambling64 up the cliffs with heavy loads on their backs; and, while Stanley and his wife were yet conversing65, two of them approached rapidly, bearing the large canoe on their shoulders. The exclamation66 that issued from the foremost of these proved him to be Bryan.
“Now, bad luck to ye, Gaspard! can’t ye go stidy? It’s mysilf that’ll be down on me blissid nose av ye go staggerin’ about in that fashion. Sure it’s Losh, the spalpeen, that would carry the canoe better than you.”
Gaspard made no reply. Bryan staggered on, growling67 as he went, and in another minute they were hid from view among the bushes.
“What do you see, Frank?” inquired Stanley; “you stare as earnestly as Bryan did at the white bear last week. What is’t, man? Speak!”
“A fish,” replied Frank. “I saw him rise in the pool, and I’m certain he’s a very large one.”
“Very likely, Frank; there ought to be a fish of some sort there. I’ve been told—hist! there he’s again. As I live, a salmon68! a salmon, Frank! Now for your rod, my boy.”
But Frank heard him not, for he was gone. In a few minutes he returned with a fishing-rod, which he was busily engaged in putting up as he hurried towards the rocks beside the pool.
Now, Frank Morton was a fisher. We do not mean to say that he was a fisher by profession; nor do we merely affirm that he was rather fond of the gentle art of angling, or generally inclined to take a cast when he happened to be near a good stream. By no means. Frank was more than that implies. He was a steady, thorough-going disciple69 of Izaak Walton; one who, in the days of his boyhood, used to flee to the water-side at all seasons, in all weathers, and despite all obstacles. Not only was it his wont70 to fish when he could, or how he could, but too often was he beguiled71 to fish at times and in ways that were decidedly improper72; sometimes devoting those hours which were set apart expressly for the acquirement of Greek and Latin, to wandering by mountain stream or tarn73, rod in hand, up to the knees in water, among the braes and woodlands of his own native country. And Frank’s enthusiasm did not depend entirely74 on his success. It was a standing75 joke among his school-fellows that Frank would walk six miles any day for the chance of a nibble76 from the ghost of a minnow. Indeed he was often taunted77 by his ruder comrades with being such a keen fisher that he was quite content if he only hooked a drowned cat during a day’s excursion. But Frank was good-natured; he smiled at their jests, and held on the even tenor78 of his way, whipping the streams more pertinaciously79 than his master whipped him for playing truant80; content alike to bear ignominy and chastisement81, so long as he was rewarded by a nibble, and overjoyed beyond expression when he could return home with the tail of a two-pounder hanging over the edge of his basket. Far be it from us to hold up to ridicule82 the weakness of a friend, but we cannot help adding that Master Frank made the most of his tails. His truthful83 and manly84 nature, indeed, would not stoop to actual deception85, but he had been known on more than one occasion to offer to carry a friend’s waterproof86 fishing-boots in his basket, when his doing so rendered it impossible to prevent the tails of his trout87 from protruding88 arrogantly89, as if to insinuate90 that there were shoals within. Another of Frank’s weaknesses was, upon the hooking of every fish, to assert, with overweening confidence and considerable excitement, that it was a tremendously big one. Experience had, during all his piscatorial91 career, contradicted him ninety-nine times out of every hundred; but Frank’s firm belief in his last minnow being a big trout—at least until it lay gasping92 on the bank at his feet—was as unshaken after long years of mistaken calculation as when first he sallied forth to the babbling93 brook94 with a willow95 branch, a fathom18 of twine96, and a crooked97 pin!
Such untiring devotion, of course, could not fail to make Frank particularly knowing in all the details and minutiae98 of his much-loved sport. He knew every hole and corner of the rivers and burns within fifteen miles of his father’s house. He became mysteriously wise in regard to the weather; knew precisely99 the best fly for any given day, and, in the event of being unhappily destitute100 of the proper kind, could dress one to perfection in ten minutes. As he grew older and taller, and the muscles on his large and well-made limbs began to develop, Frank slung101 a more capacious basket on his back, shouldered a heavier rod, and, with a pair of thick shoes and a home-spun shooting suit, stretched away over the Highland102 hills towards the romantic shores of the west coast of Scotland. Here he first experienced the wild excitement of salmon-fishing; and here the Waltonian chains, that had been twining and thickening around him from infancy103, received two or three additional coils, and were finally riveted104 for ever. During his sojourn105 in America, he had happened to dwell in places where the fishing, though good, was not of a very exciting nature; and he had not seen a salmon since the day he left home, so that it is not matter for wonder that his stride was rapid and his eye bright while he hurried towards the pool, as before mentioned.
He who has never left the beaten tracks of men, or trod the unknown wilderness, can have but a faint conception of the feelings of a true angler as he stands by the brink106 of a dark pool which has hitherto reflected only the antlers of the wild deer—whose dimpling eddies107 and flecks108 of foam109 have been disturbed by no fisher since the world began, except the polar bear. Besides the pleasurable emotions of strong hope, there is the additional charm of uncertainty110 as to what will rise, and of certainty that if there be anything piscatine beneath these fascinating ripples111 it undoubtedly112 will rise—and bite too! Then there is the peculiar42 satisfaction of catching113 now and then a drop of spray from, and hearing the thunder of, a cataract114, whose free, surging bound is not yet shackled115 by the tourist’s sentimental116 description; and the novelty of beholding117 one’s image reflected in a liquid mirror whose geographical118 position is not yet stereotyped120 on the charts of man. Alas121 for these maps and charts! Despite the wishes of scientific geographers122 and the ignorance of unscientific explorers, we think them far too complete already; and we can conceive few things more dreadful or crushing to the enterprising and romantic spirits of the world than the arrival of that time (if it ever shall arrive) when it shall be said that terra incognita exists no longer—when every one of those fairy-like isles123 of the southern seas, and all the hidden wonders of the polar regions, shall be put down, in cold blood, on black and white, exposed profanely124 on the schoolroom walls, and drummed into the thick heads of wretched little boys who don’t want to learn, by the unsympathising hands of dominies who, it may be, care but little whether they do or not!
But to return. While Frank stood on the rocks, attaching to the line a salmon-fly which he had selected with much consideration from his book, he raised his eyes once or twice to take a rapid glance at his position and the capabilities125 of the place. About fifty yards further up the river the stream curled round the base of a large rock, and gushed126 into a pool which was encircled on all sides by an overhanging wall, except where the waters issued forth in a burst of foam. Their force, however, was materially broken by another curve, round which they had to sweep ere they reached this exit, so that when they rushed into the larger pool below they calmed down at once, and on reaching the point where Frank stood, assumed that oily, gurgling surface, dimpled all over with laughing eddies, that suggests irresistibly127 the idea of fish not only being there, as a matter of course, but being there expressly and solely128 for the purpose of being caught! A little further down, the river took a slight bend, and immediately after, recurring129 to its straight course, it dashed down, for a distance of fifty yards, in a tumultuous rapid, which swept into sudden placidity130 a few hundred yards below. Having taken all this in at a glance, Frank dropped the fly into the water and raised his rod to make a cast. In this act he almost broke the rod, to his amazement131; for, instead of whipping the fly lightly out of the water, he dragged a trout of a pound weight violently up on the bank.
“Bravo!” cried Stanley, laughing heartily132 at his friend’s stare of mingled133 wonder and amazement,—“bravo, Frank! I’m no fisher myself, but I’ve always understood that fish required a little play before being landed. However, you have convinced me of my ignorance. I see that the proper way is to toss them over your head! A salmon must be rather troublesome to toss, but no doubt, with your strong arms, you’ll manage it easily, hey?”
“Why, what an appetite they must have!” replied Frank, answering his friend’s badinage134 with a smile. “If the little fellows begin thus, what will not the big ones do?”
As he spoke, he disengaged the fish and threw it down, and made the next cast so rapidly, that if another trout was waiting to play him a similar trick, it must have been grievously disappointed. The line swept lightly through the air, and the fly fell gently on the stream, where it had not quivered more than two seconds when the water gurgled around it. The next moment Frank’s rod bent like a hoop135, and the line flew through the rings with whirring rapidity, filling these lonely solitudes136 for the first time with the pleasant “music of the reel.” Almost before Frank had time to take a step in a downward direction, fifty yards were run out, the waters were suddenly cleft137, and a salmon sprang like a bar of burnished138 silver twice its own height into the air. With a sounding splash it returned to its native element; but scarcely had its fins139 touched the water, when it darted140 towards the bank. Being brought up suddenly here, it turned at a tangent, and flashed across the pool again, causing the reel to spin with renewed velocity141. Here the fish paused for a second, as if to collect its thoughts, and then coming, apparently142, to a summary determination as to what it meant to do, it began steadily143 to ascend144 the stream, not, indeed, so rapidly as it had descended145, but sufficiently so to give Frank some trouble, by means of rapidly winding146 up, to keep the line tight. Having bored doggedly147 towards the head of the rapid, the fish stopped and began to shake its head passionately148, as if indignant at being foiled in its energetic attempts to escape. After a little time, it lay sulkily down at the bottom of the pool, where it defied its persecutor149 to move it an inch.
“What’s to be done now?” asked Stanley, who stood ready to gaff the fish when brought near to the bank.
“We must rouse him up,” said Frank, as he slowly wound up the line. “Just take up a stone and throw it at him.”
Stanley looked surprised, for he imagined that such a proceeding150 would frighten the fish and cause it to snap the line; but seeing that Frank was in earnest, he did as he was directed. No sooner had the stone sunk than the startled fish once more dashed across the river; then taking a downward course, it sped like an arrow to the brink of the rough water below. To have allowed the salmon to go down the rapid would have been to lose it, so Frank arrested the spinning of his reel and held on. For a second or two the rod bent almost in a circle, and the line became fearfully rigid152.
“You’ll break it, Frank,” cried Stanley, in some anxiety.
“It can’t be helped,” said Frank, compressing his lips; “he must not go down there. The tackle is new; I think it will hold him.”
Fortunately the tackle proved to be very good. The fish was arrested, and after one or two short runs, which showed that its vigour153 was abated154, it was drawn155 carefully towards the rocks. As it drew near it rolled over on its side once or twice—an evident sign of being much exhausted156.
“Now, Stanley, be careful,” said Frank, as his friend stepped cautiously towards the fish and extended the gaff. “I’ve seen many a fine salmon escape owing to careless gaffing. Don’t be in a hurry. Be sure of your distance before you strike, and do it quickly. Now, then—there—give it him! Hurrah157!” he shouted, as Stanley passed the iron hook neatly158 into the side of the fish, and lifted it high and dry on the rocks.
The cheer to which Frank gave vent37, on this successful termination to the struggle, was re-echoed heartily by several of the men, who, on passing the spot with their loads, had paused and become deeply interested spectators of the sport.
“Powerful big fish, sir,” said Bryan, throwing down his pack and taking up the salmon by the gills. “Twinty pounds at laste, av it’s an ounce.”
“Scarcely that, Bryan,” said Stanley; “but it’s not much less, I believe.”
“Ah! oui, ’tis ver’ pritty. Ver’ superb for supper,” remarked La Roche.
The little Frenchman was right in saying that it was pretty. Unlike the ordinary salmon, it was marked with spots like a trout, its head was small and its shoulders plump, while its silvery purity was exceedingly dazzling and beautiful.
“’Tis a Hearne-salmon,” said Massan, approaching the group. “I’ve seed lots o’ them on the coast to the south’ard o’ this, an’ I’ve no doubt we’ll find plenty o’ them at Ungava.”
While the men were discussing the merits of the fish, Frank had hooked another, which, although quite as large, gave him much less trouble to land; and before the men had finished carrying the canoes and goods over the portage, he had taken three fish out of the same pool. Wishing, however, to try for a larger one nearer the sea, he proceeded to take a cast below the rapid.
Meanwhile, La Roche, whose activity had enabled him to carry over his portion of the cargo59 long before his comrades, came to the pool which Frank had just left, and seating himself on a large stone, drew forth his tobacco-pouch. With a comical leer at the water which had so recently been deprived of its denizens159, he proceeded leisurely160 to fill a pipe.
It is impossible to foresee, and difficult to account for, the actions of an impulsive161 human being. La Roche sat down to smoke his pipe, but instead of smoking it, he started to his feet and whirled it into the river. This apparently insane action was followed by several others, which, as they were successively performed, gradually unfolded the drift of his intentions. Drawing the knife which hung at his girdle, he went into the bushes, whence he quickly returned, dragging after him a large branch. From this he stripped the leaves and twigs162. Fumbling163 in his pocket for some time, he drew forth a piece of stout164 cord, about four yards long, with a cod-hook attached to the end of it. This line had been constructed some weeks before when the canoes were wind-bound at a part of the coast where La Roche, desirous of replenishing the kettle, had made an unsuccessful attempt at sea-fishing. Fastening this line to the end of his extemporised rod, La Roche proceeded to dress his hook. This he accomplished165 by means of the feather of a duck which Frank shot the day before, and a tag from his scarlet166 worsted belt; and, when finished, it had more the appearance of some hideous167 reptile168 than a gay fly. However, La Roche surveyed it for a moment or two with an expression of deep satisfaction, and then, hurrying to the brink of the water, made a violent heave.
“Oh! cent milles tonnerres!” he exclaimed angrily, as the enormous hook caught in the leg of his trousers. The large and clumsy barb169 was deeply imbedded, so there was no help for it but to use the knife. The second throw was more successful, and the hook alighted in the water with a splash that ought to have sent all the fish in the pool away in consternation170. Instead of this, however, no sooner did the reptile trail upon the stream than a trout dashed at it in such violent haste that it nearly missed it altogether. As it was, it hooked itself very slightly, and the excitable Frenchman settled the matter by giving the line a violent tug171, in his anxiety to land the fish, that pulled the hook entirely out of its mouth.
“Ah! c’est dommage, ver’ great; mais try it encore, my boy,” exclaimed the mortified172 angler. The next throw, although well accomplished, produced nothing; but at the third attempt, ere the reptile had settled on the water for a second, it was engulfed173 by a salmon fully151 six pounds weight, and La Roche’s rod was almost drawn out of his grasp.
“Hilloa, Losh! what have ye got there?” exclaimed Bryan, as, with several of the men, he approached to where the Frenchman and the salmon strove in uncertain conflict.
“By the mortial, he’s hucked a whale! Out with it, boy, afore it pulls ye in!” said the Irishman, running to the rescue.
Just then the salmon gave a pull of more than ordinary vigour, at the same moment La Roche slipped his foot, and, ere Bryan could lay hold of him, fell headlong into the water and disappeared. Bryan’s hands hung helplessly down, his jaw174 dropped, and his eyes opened wide, as he gazed in mute wonderment at the spot where his friend’s toes had vanished. Suddenly he wrenched175 off his cap and flung it down, and proceeded to tear off his coat, preparatory to leaping into the river to the rescue, when his arms were pinioned176 to his sides by the powerful grip of Massan.
“Come, Bryan,” said he, “you know very well that you can’t swim; you’d only make things worse.”
“Och! murder! he can’t swim neither. Let me go, ye black villain177. Thunder an’ turf! will ye see the poor lad drownded forenint yer two eyes?” cried the poor Irishman, as he made violent but unavailing struggles to get free. But Massan knew that to allow him to escape would only add to the number requiring to be saved, and as he himself could not swim, he saw at once that the only service he could render under the circumstances would be to hold the Irishman down. Clasping him, therefore, as in a vice178, he raised his head and gave a shout for help that rolled in deep echoes among the overhanging cliffs. Another shout was uttered at the same instant. Edith, who happened to come up just as La Roche’s head emerged from the water gasping for breath, uttered a wild shriek179 that made more than one heart among the absentees leap as they flew to the rescue.
Meanwhile La Roche rose and sank several times in the surges of the pool. His face on these occasions exhibited a mingled expression of terror and mischievous180 wildness; for although he could not swim a stroke, the very buoyancy of his mercurial181 temperament182 seemed partially183 to support him, and a feeling of desperate determination induced him to retain a death-like gripe of the rod, at the end of which the salmon still struggled. But his strength was fast going, and he sank for the fourth time with a bubbling cry, when a step was heard crashing through the adjacent bushes, and Dick Prince sprang down the slope like a deer. He did not pause when the scene burst upon his view, but a smile of satisfaction played upon his usually grave face when he saw Edith safe on the banks of the stream. Another spring and an agile184 bound sent him headlong into the pool about a yard from the spot where La Roche had last sunk. Scarcely had he disappeared when the dog Chimo bounded towards the scene of action, and, with what intent no one could tell, leaped also into the water. By this time Frank, Stanley, and nearly all the party had assembled on the bank of the river, ready to render assistance. In a few seconds they had the satisfaction of seeing Dick Prince rise, holding poor La Roche by the collar of his capote with his left hand, while he swam vigorously towards the shore with his right. But during the various struggles which had taken place they had been gradually sucked into the stream that flowed towards the lower rapid, and it now became apparent to Prince that his only chance of safety was in catching hold of the point of rock that formed the first obstruction185 to the rush of water. Abandoning all effort, therefore, to gain the bank beside him, he swam with the current, but edged towards the shore as he floated down.
“Hallo! La Roche!” he exclaimed loudly. “Do you hear? do you understand me?”
“Ah! oui, vraiment. I not dead yit.”
“Then let go that rod and seize my collar, and mind, sink deep in the water. Show only enough o’ your face to breathe with, or I’ll drown ye.”
The Frenchman obeyed to the extent of seizing Dick’s collar and sinking deep in the water, so as not to overburden his friend; but nothing could induce him to quit the rod to which he had clung so long and so resolutely186. Prince’s arms being now free, one or two powerful strokes placed him beyond the influence of the strong current, and as he passed the rocks before mentioned, he seized an overhanging branch of a small shrub187, by which he endeavoured to drag himself ashore188. This, however, he found to be impossible, partly owing to the steepness of the shelving rock, and partly to the fact that Chimo, in his ill-directed attempts to share in the dangers of his friends, had seized La Roche by the skirts of the coat in order to prevent himself from going down the stream. Those on shore, on seeing Prince make for the rock, ran towards the spot; but having to make a slight détour round the bend of the river, they did not reach it until he seized the branch, and when Frank, who was the first, sprang down, the slope to the rescue, he found them streaming out and waving to and fro in the current, like some monstrous189 reptile—Dick holding on to the branch with both hands, La Roche holding on to Dick, Chimo holding on by his teeth to La Roche, and the unfortunate salmon holding on to the line which its half-drowned captor scorned to let go.
A few seconds sufficed to drag them dripping from the stream; and the energetic little Frenchman no sooner found his feet on solid ground than he hauled out his fish and landed it triumphantly190 with his own hand.
“’Tis a pretty fish, La Roche,” said Frank, laughing, as he busied himself in taking down his rod, while several of the men assisted Dick Prince to wring191 the water out of his clothes, and others crowded round La Roche to congratulate him on his escape—“’tis a pretty fish, but it cost you some trouble to catch it.”
“Throuble, indeed!” echoed Bryan, as he sat on a rock smoking his pipe; “troth it’s more nor him came to throuble by that same fish: it guve me the throuble o’ bein’ more nor half choked by Massan.”
“Half choked, Bryan! what mean you?” asked Frank.
“Mane? I just mane what I say; an’ the raison why’s best known to himself.”
A loud peal192 of laughter greeted Massan’s graphic119 explanation of the forcible manner in which he had prevented the Irishman from throwing himself into the river.
The party now turned earnestly to the more serious duties of the journey. Already too much time had been lost in this “playing themselves with fish,” as Stanley expressed it, and it behoved them to embark as speedily as possible. About a mile above the pool which had nearly proved fatal to La Roche was the head of a series of insurmountable rapids, which extended all the way down to the waterfall. Beyond this was a pretty long reach of calm water, up which they proceeded easily; but as they advanced the current became so strong that no headway could be made with the paddles, and it was found necessary to send a party of the men ashore with a long line, by means of which the canoes were slowly dragged against the current. At length they came to shallow water, which necessitated193 another portage; and as it was about sunset when they reached it, Stanley ordered the tent to be pitched for the night, and the fire lighted, under the shadow of a stupendous mountain, the rocky sides of which were sprinkled with dwarf194 pine trees, and partially covered with brush and herbage. Here Edith and her mother discovered multitudes of berries, the most numerous being cloud and crow berries; both of which were found to be good, especially the former, and a fragrant195 dish of these graced the towel that evening at supper.
Thus, day by day, our adventurous196 travellers penetrated197 deeper and deeper into the heart of the wilderness, which became more savage198 and mountainous as they left the coast. Stanley drew forth his quadrant and compass, wherewith he guided the party towards their future home. At night, after the labour of the day was over, he and Frank would spread their charts in the blaze of the camp fire, and study the positions of the land so far as it was laid down; while Edith sat beside her mother, helping199 her to repair the torn and way-worn habiliments of her husband and Frank, or listening with breathless interest to the men, as they recounted their experiences of life in the different regions through which they had travelled. Many of these tales were more or less coloured by the fancy of the narrators, but most of them were founded on fact, and proved an unfailing source of deep interest to the little child. Frank’s fishing-rod was frequently in requisition, and often supplied the party with more than enough of excellent fish; and at every new bend and turn of the innumerable lakes and rivers through which they passed, reindeer200 were seen bounding on the mountain-sides, or trotting201 down the ravines to quench202 their thirst and cool their sides in the waters; so that food was abundant, and their slender stock of provisions had not to be trenched upon, while the berries that grew luxuriantly everywhere proved a grateful addition to their store. Thus, day by day, they slowly retreated farther and farther from the world of mankind—living in safety under the protection of the Almighty203, and receiving the daily supply of all their necessities from His fatherly and bountiful hand; thus, day by day, they rose with the sun, and lay down at night to rest upon the mountain’s side or by the river’s bank; and thus, day by day, they penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of the unknown wilderness.
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pebbles
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chuckle
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fathom
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fathoms
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wrecked
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gulf
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domain
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marrow
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remarkably
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dint
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emission
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superstition
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indifference
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rambled
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laden
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excellence
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impatience
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abruptly
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chasms
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gorges
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bosom
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rugged
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spoke
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cargoes
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cargo
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bent
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exulting
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eloquently
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scrambling
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conversing
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exclamation
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growling
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salmon
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wont
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improper
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chastisement
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deception
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