Stories of pioneer life, for young readers; . stay andteach them, but he knew that his life was nearly 2 8 Stories of Pioneer Life. over, so he started back to his old mission atMackinac, where he had first taught the friends rowed him carefully up the river ashe lay weak and ill in the boat. They crossed Lake Michigan, but he felt thathe could go no farther, so he asked his friends toland. They built him a bark hut, and cared forhim as tenderly as they could. It was not long before he died in this little hutin the wilderness. He was glad to give his lifein trvino; to do o;ood to t
Stories of pioneer life, for young readers; . stay andteach them, but he knew that his life was nearly 2 8 Stories of Pioneer Life. over, so he started back to his old mission atMackinac, where he had first taught the friends rowed him carefully up the river ashe lay weak and ill in the boat. They crossed Lake Michigan, but he felt thathe could go no farther, so he asked his friends toland. They built him a bark hut, and cared forhim as tenderly as they could. It was not long before he died in this little hutin the wilderness. He was glad to give his lifein trvino; to do o;ood to the Indians. Hunters. I. When white people first came to this country,it was not to make their homes here. Some cameto find out what kind of country it was. Someof them came to teach the Indians about came to trade with the Indians or to hunt. Hunting was not a days sport with such men ; itwas the work of a season. In the fall they huntedthe deer. The winter and early spring was thetime to hunt bears and other fur-bearing Sometimes hunters built a camp like a hunter had no shelter in which to sleep. 29 30 Stories of Pioneer Life. Then he would roll himself up in a buffalo skin,and lie on the ground with his feet toward thefire. The hunter had a queer kind of clothing well-suited to the woods. Over one ear hunor the o bushy tail of a raccoon,for his cap was gen-erally made of that ani-mals skin. He worea long coat and leg-gings made of fringeddeerskin, and had alsodeerskin clothing couldnot be easily torn, andwould not wear outvery soon. The hunter alwayscarried with him histrusty rifle. His well-filled powder-horn wasswung over his shoul-der. He had also an Indian tomahawk which heused in clearing a way through the forest. Hecarried a long, keen-edged hunting-knife to beused in taking the skin from any animal that hemight shoot,
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