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AWAY IN THE WILDERNESS.
CHAPTER VII.
A SAVAGE FAMILY, AND A FIGHT WITH A BEAR.
BOUT a week after our travellers left the out-
post, Arrowhead had an adventure with a
bear, which had well-nigh cut short his journey
through this world, as well as his journey in the
wilderness of Rupert’s Land.
It was in the evening of a beautiful day when
it happened. The canoe had got among some bad
rapids, and, as it advanced very slowly, young
Heywood asked to be put on shore, that he might
walk up the banks of the river, which were very
beautiful, and sketch.
In half an hour he was far ahead of the canoe.
Suddenly, on turning round a rocky point, he
found himself face to face with a small Indian
boy. It is probable that the little fellow had
never seen a white man before, and it is certain
that Heywood had never seen such a specimen of
a brown boy. He was clothed in skin, it is true,
but it was the skin in which he had been bom, for
he had not a stitch of clothing on his fat little body.