| PART I |
| CHAPTER I |
| PAGE |
| Henry Hudson’s First Voyage | [3] |
| CHAPTER II |
| Hudson’s Second Voyage | [16] |
| CHAPTER III |
| Hudson’s Third Voyage | [26] |
| CHAPTER IV |
| Hudson’s Fourth Voyage | [49] |
| CHAPTER V |
| The Adventures of the Danes on Hudson Bay—Jens Munck’s Crew | [72] |
| PART II |
| CHAPTER VI |
| Radisson, the Pathfinder, Discovers Hudson Bay and Founds the Company of Gentlemen Adventurers | [97] |
| CHAPTER VII |
| The Adventures of the First Voyage—Radisson Driven Back Organizes the Hudson’s Bay Company and Writes his Journals of Four Voyages—The Charter and the First Shareholders—Adventures of Radisson on the Bay—The Coming of the French and the Quarrel | [111] |
| CHAPTER VIII |
| “Gentlemen Adventurers of England”—Lords of the Outer Marches—Two Centuries of Company Rule—Secret Oaths—The Use of Whiskey—The Matrimonial Offices—The Part the Company Played in the Game of International Juggling—How Trade and Voyages Were Conducted | [132] |
| CHAPTER IX |
| If Radisson Can Do Without the Adventurers, the Adventurers Cannot Do Without Radisson—The Eruption of the French on the Bay—The Beginning of the Raiders | [162] |
| CHAPTER X |
| The Adventurers Furious at Radisson, Find it Cheaper to Have him as a Friend than Enemy and Invite him Back—The Real Reason Why Radisson Returned—The Treachery of Statecraft—Young Chouart Outraged, Nurses his Wrath and Gayly Comes on the Scene Monsieur Péré—Scout and Spy | [180] |
| CHAPTER XI |
| Wherein the Reasons for Young Chouart Groseiller’s Mysterious Message to Our Good Friend “Péré” are Explained—The Forest Rovers of New France Raid the Bay by Sea and Land—Two Ships Sunk—Péré, the Spy, Seized and Sent to England | [198] |
| CHAPTER XII |
| Pierre le Moyne d’Iberville Sweeps the Bay | [211] |
| CHAPTER XIII |
| D’Iberville Sweeps the Bay (continued) | [228] |
| CHAPTER XIV |
| What Became of Radisson?—New Facts on the Last Days of the Famous Pathfinder | [256] |
| PART III |
| CHAPTER XV |
| The First Attempts of the Adventurers to Explore—Henry Kelsey Penetrates as far as the Valley of the Saskatchewan—Sanford and Arrington, Known as “Red Cap,” Found Henley House Inland from Albany—Beset from Without, the Company is also Beset from Within—Petitions Against the Charter—Increase of Capital—Restoration of the Bay from France | [277] |
| CHAPTER XVI |
| Old Captain Knight, Beset by Gold Fever, Hears the Call of the North—The Straits and Bay—The First Harvest of the Sea at Dead Man’s Island—Castaways for Three Years—The Company, Beset by Gold Fever, Increases its Stock—Pays Ten Per Cent. on Twice Trebled Capital—Coming of Spies Again | [298] |
| CHAPTER XVII |
| The Company’s Prosperity Arouses Opposition—Arthur Dobbs and the Northwest Passage and the Attack on the Charter—No Northwest Passage is Found, but the French Spur the English to Renewed Activity | [320] |
| CHAPTER XVIII |
| The March Across the Continent Begins—The Company Sends a Man to the Blackfeet of the South Saskatchewan—Anthony Hendry is the First Englishman to Penetrate to the Saskatchewan—The First Englishman to Winter West of Lake Winnipeg—He Meets the Sioux and the Blackfeet and Invites them to the Bay | [334] |
| CHAPTER XIX |
| Extension of Trade toward Labrador, Quebec and Rockies—Hearne Finds the Athabasca Country and Founds Cumberland House on the Saskatchewan—Cocking Proceeds to the Blackfeet—Howse Finds the Pass in Rockies | [355] |
| CHAPTER XX |
| “The Coming of the Pedlars”—A New Race of Wood-rovers Throngs to the Northwest—Bandits of the Wilds War Among Themselves—Tales of Border Warfare, Wassail and Grandeur—The New Northwest Company Challenges the Authority and Feudalism of the Hudson’s Bay Company | [389] |