ters, etc) including punctuation, have been silently corrected.

All other inconsistencies including archaic spellings have been left as
they were in the original.

Added a List of Illustrations.]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

THE YOUNG VOYAGEURS ON THE RED RIVER. Frontispiece

THE TRUMPETER SWAN AND THE BALD EAGLE. 28

BASIL AND THE BISON-BULL. 50

THE WAPITI AND THE WOLVERENE. 67

THE BLAIREAU AND THE MARMOTS 84

THE OSPREY AND WHITE-HEADED EAGLE. 99

BASIL AND THE MOOSE BULL. 116

THE WOLVES AND THE PEMMICAN BAGS. 129

THE LYNX AND THE GOLDEN EAGLE. 150

THE FLIGHT OF THE REFUGEES. 167

GUAPO'S ENCOUNTER WITH THE BULLS. 196

GUAPO AND THE 'NIMBLE PETERS.' 230

THE ESCAPE OF THE ARMADILLO. 250

THE VAMPIRE BAT. 266

ADVENTURE WITH AN ANACONDA. 287

THE SHOWER OF LOCUSTS. 332

THE LION IN A FIX. 350

A DEADLY ENCOUNTER. 370

HENDRIK DECOYING THE OUREBIS. 386

SWARTBOY IN A PREDICAMENT. 404

HANS BESIEGED BY A WILDEBEEST. 417

THE QUAGGA AND THE HYENA. 432

HENDRICK BLINDING THE QUAGGA. 443

TOTTY IN TROUBLE. 459

Popular Adventure Tales.

THE YOUNG VOYAGEURS

OR

BOY HUNTERS IN THE NORTH.

CHAPTER I

THE FUR COUNTRIES

Boy reader, you have heard of the Hudson's Bay Company? Ten to one you
have worn a piece of fur which it has provided for you; if not, your
pretty little sister has--in her muff, or her boa, or as a trimming for
her winter dress. Would you like to know something of the country whence
come these furs?--of the animals whose backs have been stripped to
obtain them? As I feel certain that you and I are old friends, I make
bold to answer for you--yes. Come, then! let us journey together to the
"Fur Countries;" let us cross them from south to north.

A vast journey it will be. It will cost us many thousand miles of
travel. We shall find neit