Jack the Young Canoeman: An Eastern Boy's Voyage in a Chinook Canoe

  JACK THE YOUNG CANOEMAN

  An Eastern Boy's Voyage in a Chinook Canoe

  by

  GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL

  Author of "Jack in the Rockies," "Jack the Young Ranchman,""Jack Among the Indians," "Pawnee Hero Stories," "BlackfootLodge Tales," "The Story of the Indian,""The Indian of To-day," etc.

  Illustrated by Edwin Willard Deming

  And by Half-tone Engravings of Photographs

  New YorkFrederick A. Stokes CompanyPublishers

  Copyright, 1906By Frederick A. Stokes Company

  Published in September, 1906All rights reserved

  The University Press, Cambridge, U.S.A.

  PREFACE

  The mountains which border the British Columbia coast between the mouthof the Frazer River and the southeastern point of Alaska are stillunknown to the world at large. Few people have sailed up the wonderfulfiords, which, as great water-floored canyons, run back forty or fiftymiles into the interior. Fewer still have penetrated by land into themountains where there are neither roads nor trails, and where progresson foot is barred by a thousand insurmountable obstacles.

  Since the time that Jack Danvers made his voyage in a Chinook canoealong this beautiful coast, it has not greatly changed. The mountainsstill abound in game, the sea in fish; the scenery is as beautiful asit was then; and over the waters, dancing blue beneath the brilliantsky, or black under the heavy rain clouds, the Indian still paddles hishigh-prowed canoe.

  CONTENTS

  CHAPTER PAGE

  I. VICTORIA, V. I. 11

  II. HOW JACK AND HUGH CAME TO BRITISH COLUMBIA 22

  III. A MYSTERIOUS WATER MONSTER 31

  IV. THE COBBLER NATURALIST OF BURRARD INLET 40

  V. AN UNEXPECTED BEAR 53

  VI. OF INDIANS IN ARMOR 68

  VII. SEAMMUX IN DANGER 78

  VIII. THE COAST INDIANS AND THEIR WAYS 91

  IX. PREPARATION FOR THE VOYAGE 103

  X. THE START 111

  XI. FOOD FROM THE SEA 124

  XII. THE ISLAND DEER 135

  XIII. AN ADVENTURE OF THE CASSIAR 147

  XIV. BUTE INLET 158

  XV. THE WORK THAT GLACIERS DO 172

  XVI. A MOTHER'S COURAGE 189

  XVII. JACK MEETS A SEAL PIRATE 209

  XVIII. MILLIONS OF SALMON 228

  XIX. FISHING WITH A SIWASH 236

  XX. OFF FOR A HUNT IN THE MOUNTAINS 251

  XXI. LAST DAYS IN BRITISH COLUMBIA 264

  XXII. THE HOMEWARD ROAD 277