The Land of the Muskeg (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ... Queen had more subjects than any one could imagine. All the inhabitants of any country Daukhan had seen would not fill a single street of London, and London had thousands of streets, and there were thousands of cities almost as large as London. These people, too, were scattered all over the world. How could one person know what was best for all of them? and so the Queen, anxious that her people should be happy, allowed them in each country to choose chiefs and send them to large councils, so that each chief could speak for the needs of the people that sent him, and then advise the Queen what to do. However much she might disagree with her chiefs, still she always did what they advised, because she would rather go against her own judgment than let her people suppose she was not anxious for their good. This explanation pleased, for it reminded Daukhan of the stories his father had told him of the government of his nation in the days when the Crees were a great united tribe; but I had misgivings that neither history nor law would bear me out in my account of it 'It was in the midst of this conversation that a low long-drawn note came to us from the mountain where the Moberley's Lake trail lay. Daukhan was up in an instant, and putting his clasped hands to his mouth emitted a reply exactly similar. This was again answered, and Daukhan resumed his seat, saying--as John translated it--" It is a person." It appears this was the regular call of the Indians, and doubtless some Beaver had seen our camp, and was calling out to us to keep up the fire and have the kettle ready for a welcome. Here was luck The very thing we thought we had missed. So the talk resumed, now on one topic, now on another, until an hour had gone by, when, no one...