. The great lone land : a narrative of travel and adventure in the North-West of America. red, a regiondestined in the near future to hear its echoes wake to othersounds than those of moose-call or wolf-howl. It was duskin the evening of the 19th of January when we reached thehigh ground which looks down upon the forks of theSaskatchewan River. On some low ground at the far-ther side of the North Branch a camp-fire glimmeredin the twilight. On the ridges beyond stood the darkpines of the Great Sub-Arctic Forest, and below lay thetwo broad converging rivers whose immense currents, hushedbeneath
. The great lone land : a narrative of travel and adventure in the North-West of America. red, a regiondestined in the near future to hear its echoes wake to othersounds than those of moose-call or wolf-howl. It was duskin the evening of the 19th of January when we reached thehigh ground which looks down upon the forks of theSaskatchewan River. On some low ground at the far-ther side of the North Branch a camp-fire glimmeredin the twilight. On the ridges beyond stood the darkpines of the Great Sub-Arctic Forest, and below lay thetwo broad converging rivers whose immense currents, hushedbeneath the weight of ice, here merged into the singlechannel of the Lower Saskatchewan—a wild, weird scene itlooked as the shadows closed around it. We descendedwith difficulty the steep bank and crossed the river to thecamp-fire on the north shore. Three red-deer hunters werearound it; they had some freshly killed elk meat, and pota-toes from Fort-k-la-Corne, eighteen miles below the forks;and with so many delicacies our supper a-la-fourchetteydespite a snow-storm, was a decided K,iiiilrt^ TEE GEEAT LO^^E LAND. 329 CHAPTER XXI. The Gkeat Sub-Arctic Fobest—The Forks of the Saskat-chewan—An Iroquois—Fort-a-la-Corne—News froii theOUTSIDE World—All haste fob, HoiiE—The solitaby VYigwaji—Job Millers Death. At the forks of the Saskatchewan the traveller to theeast enters the Great Sub-Arctic Forest. Let us look for amoment at this region where the earth dwells in the per-petual gloom of the pine-trees. Travelling north from theSaskatchewan River at any portion of its course fromCarlton to Edmonton, one enters on the second daysjourney this region of the Great Pine Forest. We havebefore compared it to the shore of an ocean, and like ashore it has its capes and promontories which stretch farinto the sea-like prairie, the indentations caused by the firessometimes forming large bays and open spaces won fromthe domain of the forest by the fierce flames which beatagain
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