CHAPTER IX.
The "Nor'-west Angle"—The Company's House—Triumph of "Stick-in-the-Mud"—On the Lake of the Woods—A Gallant Cook—Buns à l'imprevu—A Man overboard!—Camping out—Clear Water Bay—Our First Portage—A Noble Savage—How Lake Rice and Lake Deception won their Names—At our Journey's End.
CHAPTER X.
Making a New Home—Carrière's Kitchen—The Navvies' Salle-à-Manger—A
Curious Milking Custom—Insect Plagues—Peterboro' Canoes—Fishing
Trips—Mail-day—Indian dread of drowning—The Indian Mail-carrier and
his Partner—Talking by Telegraph—Prairie Fires.
CHAPTER XI.
Irish Wit—Bears?—Death on the Red Pine Lake—A Grave in the Catholic
Cemetery—The First Dog train—A Christmas Fête—Compulsory
Temperance—Contraband Goods—The Prisoner wins the Day—Whisky on the
Island—The Smuggler turned Detective—A Fatal Frolic—"Mr. K——'s Legs".
CHAPTER XII.
Birds of Passage—An Independent Swede—By Sleigh to Ostersund—A Son of
the Forest—Burnt out—A Brave Canadian Girl—Roughing it in the
Shanty—The Kitchen-tent—Blasting the Rock—The Perils of
Nitro-glycerine—Bitter Jests.
CHAPTER XIII.
We lose our Cows—Cahill promoted—Gardening on a New Principle—Onions in Hot-houses—Cahill is hoaxed—Martin the Builder—How the Navvies lived—Sunday in Camp—The Cook's Leap—That "Beautiful Skunk!"—Wild Fruits—Parting.