This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ...bush-call rarely fails to bring back a party, it being the rule that every call shall be given its answer. As another example of town-bred ignorance, we can tell of a member of a bankside flying-camp who was once foolish enough to stone a beaverhouse, some two or three hundred yards up the creek near ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ...bush-call rarely fails to bring back a party, it being the rule that every call shall be given its answer. As another example of town-bred ignorance, we can tell of a member of a bankside flying-camp who was once foolish enough to stone a beaverhouse, some two or three hundred yards up the creek near which they were set. Before he could well realise it, a swarm of beaver sought to take him in flank when he had moved about one hundred yards from their colony. Naturally he took to the timber and gave the customary "yaw-oop." By the time his companions came along, a batch of beaver had already begun operations on the base of the tree with a view to felling it and bringing down their aggressor. The beaver is certainly in a class by itself, and our Abbitibi party had some rare opportunities of watching one colony at work, for nearly a month. We are positive that these animals possess some kind of a language which is vocal, or at least narial, that is to say, expressed by sniffing through the nostrils, and close observation of their dam-building operations shows that they work according to very specific instructions and plan. The mystery surrounding our departure from the Abbitibi never completely disentangled itself. Failure was charged to certain commissarial agents in Civilization to deliver supplies, of which we badly stood in need at the coming of the equinoctial season, which in those regions announces its arrival somewhat suddenly in the middle of the month of September, accompanied by violent windstorms, heavy rains and the first suggestion of Polar snow. Indian guides had also proved faithless to their promise to be on the spot about mid-September, when the Pale-faces go out and the Red Men come in. Provisions in the camp...
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