CANADIAN WILDS

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

BY MARTIN HUNTER

PUBLISHED BY A. R. HARDING PUBLISHING CO. COLUMBUS, OHIO Copyright 1907 By A. R. Harding Publishing Co.

CONTENTS.

I. The Hudson's Bay Company

II. The Free Trader

III. Outfitting Indians

IV. Trackers of the North

V. Provisions for the Wilderness

VI. Forts and Posts

VII. About Indians

VIII. Wholesome Foods

IX. Officers' Allowance

X. Inland Packs

XI. Indian Mode of Hunting Beaver

XII. Indian Mode of Hunting Lynx and Marten

XIII. Indian Mode of Hunting Foxes

XIV. Indian Mode of Hunting Otter and Musquash

XV. Remarkable Success

XVI. Things to Avoid

XVII. Anticosti and Its Furs

XVIII. Chiselling and Shooting Beaver

XIX. The "Indian Devil"

XX. A Tame Seal

XXI. The Care of Blistered Feet

XXII. Deer Sickness

XXIII. A Case of Nerve

XXIV. Amphibious Combats

XXV. Art of Pulling Hearts

XXVI. Dark Furs

XXVII. Indians Are Poor Shots

XXVIII. A Bear in the Water

XXIX. Voracious Pike

XXX. The Brass-Eyed Duck

XXXI. Good Wages Trapping

XXXII. A Pard Necessary

XXXIII. An Heroic Adventure

XXXIV. Wild Oxen

XXXV. Long Lake Indians

XXXVI. Den Bears

XXXVII. The Mishaps of Ralson

MARTIN HUNTER

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.