. The land of the muskeg [microform]. Hunting; Chasse. !k 3Ei-rr I > XVI THI' I-ANI) OI- THI- MlSKIlCi m had seen ;it Winnipeg, our original plan hail been to travel by water and wagon to Fort St. John, on the Peace River, and make that our base for a journey to the North. Of course we were reckoning in entire ignorance of the character of the country. We were in Kdmonton a full week, and thouirh most h()S[)itably welcomed in that llourishing sentinel town, it is to be said that our plans were received with derision. What folly to go to certain misery and failure, when by staying where we w
. The land of the muskeg [microform]. Hunting; Chasse. !k 3Ei-rr I > XVI THI' I-ANI) OI- THI- MlSKIlCi m had seen ;it Winnipeg, our original plan hail been to travel by water and wagon to Fort St. John, on the Peace River, and make that our base for a journey to the North. Of course we were reckoning in entire ignorance of the character of the country. We were in Kdmonton a full week, and thouirh most h()S[)itably welcomed in that llourishing sentinel town, it is to be said that our plans were received with derision. What folly to go to certain misery and failure, when by staying where we were we could get the finest wild-fowl shooting in the world ! Then there were any number of black bears and, if I remember rightly, deer, moose, and a whispered rumour of buffalo, and all in a neighbourhood teeming with comfort. It is always so in my experience in a frontier town. One would have thought that, having come so far afield, these pioneers from an overcrowded world would have warmed to the project of fresh adven- ture ; but no, one is invariably warned with circum- stantial (but quite unveracious) anecdote of the perils of the beyond, and gratuitously (and quite. UlNTKY WICATIIKK IN \(; 7i -i (1 .- J t. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Somerset, H. Somers (Henry Somers). London : W. Heinemann
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