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Title: Jack the Young Canoeman

An Eastern Boy's Voyage in a Chinook Canoe

Author: George Bird Grinnell

Release Date: July 15, 2014 [eBook #46289]

Language: English

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AS THE DEER BOUNCED UP THE BANK, JACK FIRED—Page 41

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," "Blackfoot Lodge 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 YORK
FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1906
By Frederick A. Stokes Company


Published in September, 1906
All rights reserved



THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A.

PREFACE

The mountains which border the British Columbia coast between the mouth of the Frazer River and the southeastern point of Alaska are still unknown to the world at large. Few people have sailed up the wonderful fiords, which, as great water-floored canyons, run back forty or fifty miles into the interior. Fewer still have penetrated by land into the mountains where there are neither roads nor trails, and where progress on foot is barred by a thousand insurmountable obstacles.

Since the time that Jack Danvers made his voyage in a Chinook canoe along this beautiful coast, it has not greatly changed. The mountains still abound in game, the sea in fish; the scenery is as beautiful as it was then; and over the waters, dancing blue beneath the brilliant sky, or black under the heavy rain clouds, the Indian still paddles his high-prowed canoe.

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