CONTENTS

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[Foreword]ix
[Chapter I. A Paper Fleet]1
[Chapter II. White Calumet]17
[Chapter III. Six Sioux]32
[Chapter IV. Hunters All]53
[Chapter V. Many Mouths]68
[Chapter VI. On the Rock]82
[Chapter VII. Jolly Roger]99
[Chapter VIII. Broken Pots]118
[Chapter IX. The Slave Ship]136
[Chapter X. Pretty Princess]152
[Chapter XI. Stags of Twelve]166
[Chapter XII. Bridges of Boats]179
[Afterword]193

ILLUSTRATIONS

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[He Had the Uncanny Feeling of Being Watched]Frontispiece
[The Men Went Headlong into the Rapids]Facing p. 28
[Anthony Flung Against Him with All the Force of Desperation]" 114
[The Two Men Clung Desperately to the Branches They Happened to Be On and Went Down-stream with It]" 188

FOREWORD

THERE is a river so long and wide that it is the pride of our continent; a very Father of Waters.

It draws many other streams into its basin and forms the largest drainage system in the world.