JACK THE YOUNG CANOEMAN
An Eastern Boy's Voyage in a Chinook Canoe
by
GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL
Author of "Jack in the Rockies," "Jack the Young Ranchman,""Jack Among the Indians," "Pawnee Hero Stories," "BlackfootLodge Tales," "The Story of the Indian,""The Indian of To-day," etc.
Illustrated by Edwin Willard Deming
And by Half-tone Engravings of Photographs
New YorkFrederick A. Stokes CompanyPublishers
Copyright, 1906By Frederick A. Stokes Company
Published in September, 1906All rights reserved
The University Press, Cambridge, U.S.A.
PREFACE
The mountains which border the British Columbia coast between the mouthof the Frazer River and the southeastern point of Alaska are stillunknown to the world at large. Few people have sailed up the wonderfulfiords, which, as great water-floored canyons, run back forty or fiftymiles into the interior. Fewer still have penetrated by land into themountains where there are neither roads nor trails, and where progresson foot is barred by a thousand insurmountable obstacles.
Since the time that Jack Danvers made his voyage in a Chinook canoealong this beautiful coast, it has not greatly changed. The mountainsstill abound in game, the sea in fish; the scenery is as beautiful asit was then; and over the waters, dancing blue beneath the brilliantsky, or black under the heavy rain clouds, the Indian still paddles hishigh-prowed canoe.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I. VICTORIA, V. I. 11
II. HOW JACK AND HUGH CAME TO BRITISH COLUMBIA 22
III. A MYSTERIOUS WATER MONSTER 31
IV. THE COBBLER NATURALIST OF BURRARD INLET 40
V. AN UNEXPECTED BEAR 53
VI. OF INDIANS IN ARMOR 68
VII. SEAMMUX IN DANGER 78
VIII. THE COAST INDIANS AND THEIR WAYS 91
IX. PREPARATION FOR THE VOYAGE 103
X. THE START 111
XI. FOOD FROM THE SEA 124
XII. THE ISLAND DEER 135
XIII. AN ADVENTURE OF THE CASSIAR 147
XIV. BUTE INLET 158
XV. THE WORK THAT GLACIERS DO 172
XVI. A MOTHER'S COURAGE 189
XVII. JACK MEETS A SEAL PIRATE 209
XVIII. MILLIONS OF SALMON 228
XIX. FISHING WITH A SIWASH 236
XX. OFF FOR A HUNT IN THE MOUNTAINS 251
XXI. LAST DAYS IN BRITISH COLUMBIA 264
XXII. THE HOMEWARD ROAD 277
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