. Pathfinders of the West; being the thrilling story of the adventures of the men who discovered the great Northwest. V^ to d^/ind the^^ate^.^OFWALESsFOBT. ^^f^. Th( Onp laytlieFcnmdation 25l-bett/iuk ^e, flieCizjinontt^ast^yd-th^^rofi oft^i^WnU<foX,/wa^/utiCddowrt bfJiiulttifi a/^cont^natot^^nevet- Scale 114 Eeet in oue liicl From Robsons Drawing, 1733—47. SAMUEL HEARNE 267 gions for the Hudsons Bay Company. The sameCompany rules those regions to-day. Not an eye hadbeen closed for three days and nights. Throwingthemselves down on the wet shore, the entire

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. Pathfinders of the West; being the thrilling story of the adventures of the men who discovered the great Northwest. V^ to d^/ind the^^ate^.^OFWALESsFOBT. ^^f^. Th( Onp laytlieFcnmdation 25l-bett/iuk ^e, flieCizjinontt^ast^yd-th^^rofi oft^i^WnU<foX,/wa^/utiCddowrt bfJiiulttifi a/^cont^natot^^nevet- Scale 114 Eeet in oue liicl From Robsons Drawing, 1733—47. SAMUEL HEARNE 267 gions for the Hudsons Bay Company. The sameCompany rules those regions to-day. Not an eye hadbeen closed for three days and nights. Throwingthemselves down on the wet shore, the entire bandnow slept for six hours. The hunters awakened tofind a musk-ox nosing over the mossed rocks. Ashot sent it tumbling over the cliffs. Whether it wasthat the moss was too wet for fuel to cook the meat,or the massacre had brutalized the men into beasts ofprey, the Indians fell on the carcass and devoured itraw.^ The retreat from the Arctic was made with allswiftness, keeping close to the Coppermine thirty miles from the sea not

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