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[Illustration: AS THE DEER BOUNCED UP THE BANK, JACK FIRED--_Page 41_]
An Eastern Boy's Voyage in a Chinook Canoe
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.
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 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.
II. HOW JACK AND HUGH CAME TO BRITISH COLUMBIA 22
IV. THE COBBLER NATURALIST OF BURRARD INLET 40
VIII. THE COAST INDIANS AND THEIR WAYS 91
As the deer bounded up the bank, Jack fired _Frontispiece_