Canadian Crusoes: A Tale of the Rice Lake Plains. Catharine Parr Strickland Traill
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Catharine Parr Strickland Traill
Canadian Crusoes: A Tale of the Rice Lake Plains
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066245764
Table of Contents
LIST OF ENGRAVINGS (Not included)
“Fear not, ye are of more value than many sparrows.”
“Oh, come and hear what cruel wrongs Befel the Dark Ladye.”—COLERIDGE.
“The horn of the hunter is heard on the hill” Irish Song.
Page 72.— “where Wolf Tower now stands.”
Page 113.— “... as civilization advances.”
Page 184.—“ ... on first deciding that it was a canoe. ”
Page 195.— “... the Christian mind revolts with horror.”
Page 213.— “... and aimed a knife at his throat”
Page 232.— “This place she called Spooke Island”
Page 253.— “and nothing but fire.”
Page 272.— “but it was not so in the days whereof I have spoken.”
Page 282.— “... that an outward manifestation of surprise.”
PREFACE
IT will be acknowledged that human sympathy irresistibly responds to any narrative, founded on truth, which graphically describes the struggles of isolated human beings to obtain the aliments of life. The distinctions of pride and rank sink into nought, when the mind is engaged in the contemplation of the inevitable consequences of the assaults of the gaunt enemies, cold and hunger. Accidental