The Hudson's Bay Company
The Free Trader
Outfitting Indians
Trackers of the North
Provisions for the Wilderness
Forts and Posts
About Indians
Wholesome Foods
Officers' Allowance
Inland Packs
Indian Mode of Hunting Beaver
Indian Mode of Hunting Lynx and Marten
Indian Mode of Hunting Foxes
Indian Mode of Hunting Otter and Musquash
Remarkable Success
Things to Avoid
Anticosti and Its Furs
Chiselling and Shooting Beaver
The "Indian Devil"
A Tame Seal
The Care of Blistered Feet
Deer Sickness
A Case of Nerve
Amphibious Combats
Art of Pulling Hearts
Dark Furs
Indians Are Poor Shots
A Bear in the Water
Voracious Pike
The Brass-Eyed Duck
Good Wages Trapping
A Pard Necessary
An Heroic Adventure
Wild Oxen
Long Lake Indians
Den Bears
The Mishaps of Ralson
INTRODUCTION. By the courtesy of Forest and Stream and Hunter-Trader-Trapper these articles are republished in book form by the author.
I have been induced to bring them out a second time under one cover by the frequent requests of my fellow bushmen who were kind enough to criticise them favorably when they first appeared in the magazine.
In this preamble I think it proper and possibly interesting to the reader to have a short synopsis of my career.
I entered the service of the Hudson's Bay Company in 1863 as a clerk and retired in 1903 a commissioned officer of twenty years' standing.
The modes of Trapping and Hunting were learned directly by personal participation in the chase with the Indians and the other stories heard first hand from the red man.
My service in the employ of the Great Fur Company extended from Labrador in the East to Fort William on Lake Superior in the West and from the valley of the St. Lawrence in the South to the headwaters of its feeders in the North.
By canoes and snowshoes I have traveled on the principal large rivers flowing south from the height of land, among them I may mention the Moisee, Bersimis, St. Maurice, Ottawa, Michipocoten, Pic and Nepigon.
I have hunted, trapped and traded with the Montagnais, Algonquins and Ojibways, the three largest tribes that inhabit the country mentioned in the foregoing boundaries and therefore the reader can place implicit reliance in what is herein set forth. Giving a synopsis of the history of The Hudson's Bay Company, its Forts and Posts and the Indians they traded with as well as other incidents of the Canadian wilds. Respectfully, MARTIN HUNTER.
