Adventure and adventurers > Away in the wilderness, or, Life among the red Indians and fur-traders of North America

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AWAY IN THE WILDERNESS.
silver thread, until it was lost to view in the far
distance. On the right and left and behind, the
earth was covered with the dense foliage of the
wild-woods.
The hillock on which the western hunter stood,
lay in the very heart of that great uncultivated
wilderness which forms part of the British posses¬
sions in North America. This region lies to the
north of the Canadas, is nearly as large as all
Europe, and goes by the name of the Hudson’s
Bay Territory, or Rupert’s Land.
It had taken Jasper many long weeks of hard
travel by land and water, in canoes and on foot,
to get there; and several weeks of toil still lay
before him ere he could attain the object for
which his journey had been undertaken.
Wicked people say that “woman is at the bot¬
tom of all mischief!” Did it never occur to
these same wicked individuals, that woman is just
as much at the bottom of all good 1 Whether
for good or for evil, woman was at the bottom of
Jasper Derry’s heart and affairs. The cause of
his journey was love ; the aim and end of it was
marriage ! Did true love ever run smooth ? “ No,
never,” says the proverb. We shall see.