Part,  Chapter

 1      I,  I    |       Hobson was a man of forty years of age. He was short and
 2      I,  I    |       some time, lived for many years at Fort Assiniboin with
 3      I,  I    |     courage whilst yet a boy in years. Jaspar Hobson was no mere
 4      I,  I    |  soldier. He was a man of fifty years of age, with a rough beard
 5      I,  I    |      They were both about forty years old, and one of them well
 6      I,  I    |        been a widow for fifteen years, and her passion for travelling
 7      I,  I    |   dignity. Madge was about five years older than Mrs Barnett,
 8      I,  II   |        extent, that for several years this branch of industry
 9      I,  II   |   danger of its position. Three years after the taking of Quebec,
10      I,  II   |         and for the last twenty years have been decreasing.~The
11      I,  III  |     observer; and in the twenty years during which he had devoted
12      I,  IV   |             2 “~~~   ~But a few years ago beaver-skins became
13      I,  IV   |       too thin, and all had for years been accustomed to the severity
14      I,  VI   |       importance, erected a few years before by the Hudson’s Bay
15      I,  X    |  inquiries fully.~“About ninety years ago,” he said, “the territory
16      I,  X    |    English America until thirty years afterwards, when some agents
17      I,  XII  |          During the ninety-four years of French supremacy in Canada,
18      I,  XII  |      any others. They lived for years with the Indian tribes,
19      I,  XVII |      hunted. In some favourable years tens of thousands of them
20      I,  XIX  |     length of time a great many years ago. Probably the ice rests
21      I,  XIX  |       men, about forty or fifty years old, with yellowish-red
22      I,  XIX  |     children, about five or six years old, poor little creatures
23      I,  XXII |         cold before, in all the years I have spent in the north;
24      I,  XXIII| seventeen months but thirty-six years !”~“May I ask why?”~“Because
25     II,  III  |      thousands and thousands of years, Sergeant,” replied Hobson. “
26     II,  IX   |    joined on to it thousands of years before, and would sooner
27     II,  XXI  |       they had lived nearly two years; every inch of the ground
28     II,  XXIV |        meet again in thirty-six years. My friends, I missed the
29     II,  XXIV |         Arctic Ocean thirty six years hence.”~ ~