The book of camping and woodcraft; a guidebook for those who travel in the wilderness . ess. Some of themhad been old campaigners in civilized lands, but theydid not know the resources of American forests, norhow to utilize them. The consequence was that manystarved in a land of plenty. The survivors learned topocket their pride and learn from the natives, who,however contemptible they might seem in other re-spects, were past masters of the art of going *light butright. An almost naked savage could start out aloneand cross from the Atlantic to the Mississippi, withoutbuying or begging from any
The book of camping and woodcraft; a guidebook for those who travel in the wilderness . ess. Some of themhad been old campaigners in civilized lands, but theydid not know the resources of American forests, norhow to utilize them. The consequence was that manystarved in a land of plenty. The survivors learned topocket their pride and learn from the natives, who,however contemptible they might seem in other re-spects, were past masters of the art of going *light butright. An almost naked savage could start out aloneand cross from the Atlantic to the Mississippi, withoutbuying or begging from anybody, and without robbing,unless from other motives than hunger. This was notmerely due to the abundance of game. There werelarge tracts of the wilderness where game was scarce,or where it was unsafe to hunt. The Indian knew theedible plants of the forest, and how to extract goodfood from roots that were rank or poisonous in theirnatural state; but he could not depend wholly uponsuch fortuitous findings. His mainstay on long jour-neys was a small bag of parched and pulverized maize,. ^fe^—>y The Old, Old Story,—
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