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Our band of hardy adventurers arose with the sun on the ht in bivouac, and by noon of that day, thanks,

perhaps, in some ed froh

the lake which our e of

the pine woods, and our streaishly, between banks of

cattails or of wavingline, and

took a bass or so; and once Lafitte, firing chance- flock of plover, knocked down a half-dozen, so that we bade

fair to have enough for dinner that night It was all a neorld for

us No one

ay We were explorers A virgin world lay before us The nature

of the country along the stream kept the settlements back a distance;

so that to us, now, in reality, retracing one of the ancient

fur-trading routes, we ht almost have been the first to break these

silences

Toward nightfall we caion; our proas now heading to the ard, for the general

course of the great river beyond I had no notion to visit the city of

Chicago, and our route lay far above that which e craft bound for the Mississippi route to the Gulf

Fares offered

ed the

Sea Rover, unmindful alike of queries and of jeers I found ti for a long and

deterainst the Belle