The Fur Country Volume 1 of 2 Seventy Degrees North Latitude (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)
Author: Jules Verne
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 1427033870
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Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 1427033870
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Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2024-03-22
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 3387322771
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Author: Jules Verne
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2024-03-22
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 3387322569
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Author: Jules Verne
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Published: 2020-09-28
Total Pages: 538
ISBN-13: 1465610464
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An immense brick and earthenware stove occupied the centre of the room, with a huge iron pipe passing from it through the ceiling, and conducting the dense black smoke into the outer air. This stove contained a roaring fire constantly fed with fresh shovelfuls of coal by the stoker, an old soldier specially appointed to the service. Now and then a gust of wind drove back a volume of smoke into the room, dimming the brightness of the lamps, and adding fresh blackness to the beams of the ceiling, whilst tongues of flame shot forth from the stove. But the guests of Fort Reliance thought little of this slight inconvenience; the stove warmed them, and they could not pay too dearly for its cheering heat, so terribly cold was it outside in the cutting north wind. The storm could be heard raging without, the snow fell fast, becoming rapidly solid and coating the already frosted window panes with fresh ice. The whistling wind made its way through the cranks and chinks of the doors and windows, and occasionally the rattling noise drowned every other sound. Presently an awful silence ensued. Nature seemed to be taking breath; but suddenly the squall recommenced with terrific fury. The house was shaken to its foundations, the planks cracked, the beams groaned. A stranger less accustomed than the habitués of the fort to the war of the elements, would have asked if the end of the world were come. But, with two exceptions, Captain Craventy’s guests troubled themselves little about the weather, and if they had been outside they would have felt no more fear than the stormy petrels disporting themselves in the midst of the tempest. Two only of the assembled company did not belong to the ordinary society of the neighbourhood, two women, whom we shall introduce when we have enumerated Captain Craventy’s other guests: these were, Lieutenant Jaspar Hobson, Sergeant Long, Corporal Joliffe, and his bright active Canadian wife, a certain Mac-Nab and his wife, both Scotch, John Rae, married to an Indian woman of the country, and some sixty soldiers or employés of the Hudson’s Bay Company. The neighbouring forts also furnished their contingent of guests, for in these remote lands people look upon each other as neighbours although their homes may be a hundred miles apart. A good many employés or traders came from Fort Providence or Fort Resolution, of the Great Slave Lake district, and even from Fort Chippeway and Fort Liard further south. A rare break like this in the monotony of their secluded lives, in these hyberborean regions, was joyfully welcomed by all the exiles, and even a few Indian chiefs, about a dozen, had accepted Captain Craventy’s invitation. They were not, however, accompanied by their wives, the luckless squaws being still looked upon as little better than slaves. The presence of these natives is accounted for by the fact that they are in constant intercourse with the traders, and supply the greater number of furs which pass through the hands of the Hudson’s Bay Company, in exchange for other commodities. They are mostly Chippeway Indians, well grown men with hardy constitutions. Their complexions are of the peculiar reddish black colour always ascribed in Europe to the evil spirits of fairyland. They wear very picturesque cloaks of skins and mantles of fur, with a head-dross of eagle’s feathers spread out like a lady’s fan, and quivering with every motion of their thick black hair.
Author: Jules Verne
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 458
ISBN-13: 1427039062
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Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 1427039291
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Published: 2018-10-26
Total Pages: 548
ISBN-13: 9783337674557
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jules Verne
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 1427030421
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Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 414
ISBN-13: 1427042438
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Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 414
ISBN-13: 142704225X
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