Part, Chapter
1 I, II | employed the skins and furs of animals as clothing. The fur trade
2 I, II | consequence is, that the animals whose fur is valuable have
3 I, II | the same with many other animals, compelled to flee before
4 I, II | fact of the fur-bearing animals having taken refuge beyond
5 I, II | as it drove away the wild animals, so that the monopoly enjoyed
6 I, IV | bears, and other Arctic animals, they were able to brave
7 I, IV | preparations, in which the flesh of animals, ground to powder, retains
8 I, IV | These strong intelligent animals were bought of the Chippeway
9 I, V | country, where the wild animals had hitherto escaped the
10 I, V | course, urged on his own animals, and the rest of the caravan
11 I, VI | slightest effect on the jaded animals.~From time to time the travellers
12 I, VI | the species to which the animals belonged.~“You seem surprised
13 I, VI | met with traces of these animals here, Lieutenant,” said
14 I, VI | pointing to a group of animals distinctly visible about
15 I, VI | afraid of startling the animals; for, as our hunter says,
16 I, VI | ground; the poor encumbered animals soon die of hunger, or they
17 I, VII | should the fur-yielding animals, too zealously hunted, take
18 I, VII | walk to rest the exhausted animals, to push the sledges, or
19 I, VII | fortunately these terrible animals were too much occupied with
20 I, VIII | wasted in watching these animals, who swim and dive with
21 I, X | dogs were replaced by fresh animals, and now the Lieutenant
22 I, X | retreat of the fur-yielding animals; and one day a fort will
23 I, X | saw but few fur-bearing animals; but there were plenty of
24 I, XI | numbering several thousand animals, are seen running wild in
25 I, XI | really the most valuable animals to be found in these latitudes,
26 I, XI | regard to the fur-bearing animals. By the little streams rose
27 I, XI | presence of man, and the animals had chosen their refuge
28 I, XI | did not wish to alarm the animals before the approaching season-that
29 I, XI | territories, so rich in animals, were apparently deserted
30 I, XI | refuge for the fur-bearing animals; and in this matter he had
31 I, XI | opinion. The bones of some animals scattered about told them
32 I, XIV | depôts. Besides, the furred animals have not got their winter
33 I, XIV | against the inroads of wild animals or the hostilities of the
34 I, XIV | numbers of these fearful animals to the neighbourhood of
35 I, XIV | from the ferocity of these animals.~Now and then, too, a distant
36 I, XIV | short legs, and, like all animals of the feline tribe, a very
37 I, XIV | of the year, whereas the animals are able to migrate to a
38 I, XV | quickly discovered that the animals frequenting this coast were
39 I, XV | these formidable looking animals, and the hunters took advantage
40 I, XVI | There were some hundred animals in the little colony now
41 I, XVI | previously pounded by the animals’ feet. The beavers use their
42 I, XVI | to complete the list of animals which swelled the profits
43 I, XVI | the direction taken by the animals was very clearly indicated.
44 I, XVI | silver fox.~Several other animals of the same species were
45 I, XVII | without several of these animals being seen. At night they
46 I, XVIII| least nimble of the wild animals they dreaded could easily
47 I, XVIII| to think about the poor animals. The dog house and stable
48 I, XVIII| not been closed up. The animals were all well, and when
49 I, XIX | there were plenty of furred animals about the cape, and as they
50 I, XIX | or some other amphibious animals. There were six of them-four
51 I, XIX | appearance of carnivorous animals; two women, still young
52 I, XIX | flesh of the amphibious animals which form the chief article
53 I, XIX | watch for the amphibious animals near the holes through which
54 I, XX | A great number of furred animals of all kinds were taken
55 I, XX | Hunger rendered the latter animals aggressive, and bands of
56 I, XX | took care to provide the animals with food enough to last
57 I, XX | to fear that the furred animals would have to seek a less
58 I, XX | of leaving the house. The animals were well provided for,
59 I, XXI | half-a-dozen of these formidable animals had succeeded in getting
60 I, XXI | doubts.~“You don’t know these animals, madam. They are famished
61 I, XXI | the notice of the hungry animals.~Ten minutes elapsed, and
62 I, XXII | wolverines, and other valuable animals were taken in large numbers,
63 I, XXIII| a danger from men, from animals, or the elements?”~“Of animals
64 I, XXIII| animals, or the elements?”~“Of animals I have no dread whatever,
65 I, XXIII| you fear neither men nor animals, I must conclude that your
66 I, XXIII| July hunting the furred animals was discontinued, as the
67 II, I | why the furred and other animals imprisoned like ourselves,
68 II, II | men to spare the furred animals in future, and only to kill
69 II, III | hours.~There were no wild animals to be feared now. The bears
70 II, III | of haste or terror. The animals evidently felt drawn towards
71 II, III | the stillness, and furred animals of many kinds, martens,
72 II, III | Fortunately, however, one race of animals appeared to be quite unrepresented.
73 II, IV | and a good many furred animals were disporting themselves
74 II, V | the winter. These useful animals, which are easily domesticated,
75 II, V | Heaven. Woods, game, furred animals, a lagoon teeming with fish,
76 II, V | plenty of herbs for the animals, and, as Corporal Joliffe
77 II, VIII | fear, the only formidable animals, the bears, seemed to have
78 II, VIII | of seeing how many furred animals haunted the neighbourhood
79 II, VIII | orders to spare the furred animals without remonstrance or
80 II, VIII | that the number of furred animals decreased considerably.
81 II, VIII | habitation. The only formidable animals which had not been led by
82 II, VIII | of all these imprisoned animals,” said Madge, “when all
83 II, VIII | which had tamed all the wild animals on the island.~Mrs Barnett
84 II, X | fuel.~About this time a few animals were taken which had already
85 II, X | would have sufficed.~The animals imprisoned in the island,
86 II, X | in the island, the furred animals, reindeer, wolves, &c.,
87 II, X | the presence of all these animals, especially of the ruminants,
88 II, X | have recourse to the fat of animals, perhaps even to the resin
89 II, XII | bearings, the fact of the animals remaining on the island
90 II, XIII | observed that none of the animals had left the vicinity of
91 II, XIV | the appearance of these animals, and throwing a running
92 II, XIV | Esquimaux capture these animals in the winter, and begged
93 II, XIV | the ruminants and furred animals near the factory, all of
94 II, XIV | venison. Some of the furred animals even ventured into the enceinte,
95 II, XV | fort like tame domestic animals.~Whenever the state of the
96 II, XVII | coast. Everywhere the furred animals, &c., still abounded, for
97 II, XVII | of the island. Of all the animals these fierce carnivorous
98 II, XIX | manifested by the hundreds of animals now collected round the
99 II, XXI | but there were plenty of animals still on the island, and
100 II, XXI | they were aware of it.~The animals seemed more keenly alive
101 II, XXI | howling piteously. The furred animals remained huddled together
102 II, XXI | we ought to profit. The animals also appear more uneasy
103 II, XXII | it.~A great many of the animals had, however, disappeared
104 II, XXII | Bathurst, and the furred animals seemed quite unconscious
105 II, XXII | The cries of the drowning animals rent the air, and the islet
106 II, XXIII| beings, some hundred furred animals, a few dogs, and a large
107 II, XXIII| despairing wretches, with the few animals left alive, huddled together,
108 II, XXIII| upon a beach, and the few animals still upon it hurried away
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