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THE MENDICANTS REACH WINNIPEG

The Mendicants leave Chicago--The invisible parallel of 49 where the eagle perches and makes amorous eyes at the beaver--Union Jack floats on an ox-cart--A holy baggage-room--Winnipeg, the Buckle of the Wheat-Belt--The trapper and the doctor--Mrs. Humphry Ward speaks--Boy Makers of Empire--The vespers of St. Boniface

WINNIPEG TO ATHABASCA LANDING

The 1,000-mile wheat-field--Calgary-in-the-Foothills--Edmonton, the end of steel--The Brains of a Trans-Continental--Browning on the Saskatchewan--East Londoners in tents--Our outfit--A Waldorf-Astoria in the wilderness--The lonely cross of the Galician--Height of Land--Sergeant Anderson, R.N.W.M.P., the sleuth of Lesser Slave

ATHABASCA LANDING

Athabasca Landing, the Gateway of the North--English gives place to Cree--Limit of the Dry Martini--Will the rabbits run?--The woman printer--Hymn-books by hand in the Cree syllabic--Baseball even here--Rain and reminiscences--The World's Oldest Trust

"Farewell, Nistow!"--The rainy deck of a "sturgeon head" under a tarpaulin--Drifting by starlight--The wild geese overhead--Forty-foot gas-spout at the Pelican--The mosquito makes us blood-brothers--Four days on our Robinson Crusoe Island in the swirling Athabasca--Nomenclature of the North--Sentinels of the Silence

NINETY MILES OF RAPIDS

FORT CHIPEWYAN PAST AND PRESENT

Old Fort Chipewyan--In the footsteps of Mackenzie and Sir John Franklin--Sir John turns parson--Grey Nuns and brown babies--Where grew the prize wheat of the Philadelphia Centennial--Militant missionaries fight each other for souls--The strong man Loutit--Wyllie at the forge--An electric watch-maker--Where the Gambel sparrow builds--"Out of old books"

LAKE ATHABASCA AND ITS FOND DU LAC

Farewell to the Mounted Police--Our blankets on the deck--Fern odours by untravelled ways--Typewriting and kodaking in 20 hours of daylight--Navigating Lake Athabasca by the power o' man--A 23-inch trout--First white women at Fond du Lac--Carlyle among the Chipewyans, a Fond du Lac library--The hermit padre and the hermit thrush--Worn north trails of the trapper--Caribou by the hundred thousands--The phalarope and the suffragette

FOND DU LAC TO FORT SMITH

World's records beaten on the Athabasca--Down the Slave to Smith's Landing--Priests sink in the Rapid of the Drowned--The Mosquito Portage--Fort Smith, the new headquarters--Lady-slippers and night-hawks--Steamer built in the wilderness--Last stand of the wood bison--The grey wolf persists--Fur-trade and the silver-fox--Breeding pelicans.

SLAVE RIVER AND GREAT SLAVE LAKE

"Red lemol-lade" kiddies--Tons of crystal salt--Great Slave Lake and its fertile shores--Yellow-Knife and Dog-Rib, subjects of the Seventh Edward--Hay River and its annual mail--Ploughing with dogs--Bill balked--The Alexandra Falls--Bishop Bompas as a surgeon; amputations while you wait.

PROVIDENCE TO SIMPSON, ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY MILES DOWN THE MACKENZIE

Drowning of De-deed--Fort Simpson, the old headquarters--A mouldy museum--The shrew-mice that were not preserved in rum--The farthest north library--Gold-seekers and grub-staked brides--Bishop Bompas, the Apostle of the North--Owindia, the Weeping One--Fort Simpson in the first year of Victoria the Good.

FORT GOOD HOPE ON THE ARCTIC CIRCLE

Tenny Gouley tells us things--Mackenzie River, past and present--The fringed gentian at Fort Wrigley--The fires Mackenzie saw--The weathered knob of Bear Rock--Great Bear Lake--Orangeman's Day at Norman--The Ramparts of the Mackenzie--Fort Good Hope under the Arctic Circle--Mignonette and Old World courtesy--We meet Hagar once more--Potatoes on the Circle--The Little Church of the Open Door

ARCTIC RED RIVER AND ITS ESKIMO

Arctic Red River--Wilfrid Laurier, the merger--Mrs. Ila-la-Rocko, the danseuse--Marriage as the Oo-vai-oo-aks see it--Orange-blossoms at Su-pi-di-do's--Trading tryst at Barter Island--Floating fathers--By-o Baby Bunting--Wild roses and tame Eskimo--Midnight football with walrus bladder and enthusiasm--Education that makes for manliness

FORT MACPHERSON FOLK

Sir John Franklin's lobsticks at Point Separation--We reach Fort Macpherson on the Peel--Sergeant Fitzgerald, R.N.W.M.P., eulogizes the Eskimo--An Eskimo wife must make boots that are waterproof--She ariseth also while it is yet night and cheweth the boots of her household--Cribbage-boards the link between Dick Swiveller and the Eskimo--Linked sweetness long drawn out--Chauncey Depew of the Kogmollycs

MORALIZING UNDER THE MIDNIGHT SUN

The Midnight Sun--Our friend the heathen--"We want to go to hell"--Catching fish by prayer--The Eskimo and the Flood--Pink tea at the Pole--Always a balance in the Eskimo Bank--Marriage for better and not for worse--Christmas carols even here

MAINLY CONCERNING FOOD

Jurisprudence on ice--The generous Innuit--Emmie-ray, the Delineator pattern--Weak races are pressed south--Roxi, a re-incarnation of Sir Philip Sidney--Blubbery bon vivants--Eskimo knew the Elephant--We write the last chapter of the story of McClure, the navigator--Cannibalism at the Circle

THE TALE OF A WHALE

Circumpolar Bowhead makes his last stand--Whales here and elsewhere--The Yankee peddler at Canada's back-door--Thirteen and a half million in whale values--Wind-swept Herschel, the Isle of Whales--One wife for a thousand years--Baleen, Spermaceti, and Ambergris--Save the Whale

SOUTH FROM THE ARCTIC TO CHIPEWYAN

Lives lost for the sake of a white bead--The stars come back--The Keele party from the Dollarless Divide--"Here and there a grayling"--Across Great Slave Lake--The first white women at Fort Rae--Land of the musk-ox--Tales of 76 below--Two Thursdays in one week--Rabbits on ice

TO MC MURRAY AND BACK TO THE PEACE

The nuptials of 'Norine--Ladies round gents and gents don't go--The fossil-gatherers--I give my name to a Cree kiddie--A solid mile of red raspberries--The typewriter an uncanny medicine--The Beetle Fleet leaves for Outside--Shipwrecked on a batture

UP THE PEACE TO VERMILION

Ho! for the Peace--One break in 900 miles of navigation--A grey wolf--Bear-meat and the Se-weep-i-gons--Ninety-foot spruces--Tom Kerr and his bairns--The fish-seine that never fails--Our lobsticks by Red River--The Chutes of the Peace

VERMILION-ON-THE-PEACE

FORT VERMILION TO LESSER SLAVE

Se-li-nah of the happy heart--My premier moose--The rare and resourceful boatmen of the North--Alexander Mackenzie's last camp

PEACE RIVER CROSSING TO LESSER SLAVE LAKE

Pleasant prairies of the Peace--We tramp a hundred miles--The Angelus at Lesser Slave--Poole coats and Norfolk shooting-jackets--Roast duck galore--Alec Kennedy of the Nile--Louise the Wetigo, she ate nineteen

LESSER SLAVE LAKE TO EDMONTON

Jim wins: Allie Brick can't run--100,000,000 acres of wheat-land--Jilly-Loo bird still lacks a rib--100 moose in one month--Peripatetic judges but no prisoners--The best-tattooed man in the Province of Alberta--The-Man-Who-Goes-Around-and-Helps

HOMES AMONG THE YELLOW WHEAT

Edmonton again--Wyllie goes out on the Long Journey--Donaldson killed by a walrus--Two drowned in the Athabasca--Steel kings and iron horses--Wheat-plains the melting-pot of a New Nation

ROUTES OF TRAVEL

THE NEW NORTH

THE MENDICANTS REACH WINNIPEG

"We are as mendicants who wait Along the roadside in the sun. Tatters of yesterday and shreds Of morrow clothe us every one.

"And some are dotards, who believe And glory in the days of old; While some are dreamers, harping still Upon an unknown age of gold.

"O foolish ones, put by your care! Where wants are many, joys are few; And at the wilding springs of peace, God keeps an open house for you.

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