Contents
[Chapter I. Sights at Sea.]
[Chapter II. The New World.]
[Chapter III. A New Home, and A Narrow Escape.]
[Chapter IV. An Intruder.]
[Chapter V. Striving and Thriving.]
Illustrations
[Frontispiece: "Could he make such a fearful leap?"]
["Camping for the night."]
["Fishes with wings."]
["The bear prepared to give battle."]
CHAPTER I.
SIGHTS AT SEA
It was a lovely morning towards the end of April, and the blue waves of the Atlantic Ocean danced merrily in the bright sunlight, as the good ship Columbia, with all her canvass spread, scudded swiftly before the fresh breeze. She was on her way to the great western world, and on her deck stood many pale-faced emigrants, whom the mild pleasant day had brought up from their close dark berths, and who cast mournful looks in the direction of the land they had left a thousand miles behind them.