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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 aChinook 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 ofPhotographs
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 Columbiacoast between the mouth of the Frazer River and thesoutheastern point of Alaska are still unknown to theworld at large. Few people have sailed up the wonderfulfiords, which, as great water-floored canyons,run back forty or fifty miles into the interior. Fewerstill have penetrated by land into the mountains wherethere are neither roads nor trails, and where progresson foot is barred by a thousand insurmountableobstacles.
Since the time that Jack Danvers made his voyagein a Chinook canoe along this beautiful coast, it hasnot greatly changed. The mountains still abound ingame, the sea in fish; the scenery is as beautiful asit was then; and over the waters, dancing blue beneaththe brilliant sky, or black under the heavy rain clouds,the Indian still paddles his high-prowed canoe.