Pierre le Moyne d’Iberville Sweeps the Bay 211 CHAPTER XIII D’Iberville Sweeps the Bay (_continued_) 228 CHAPTER XIV What Became of Radisson?—New Facts on the Last Days of the Famous Pathfinder 256 PART III CHAPTER XV The First Attempts of the Adventurers to Explore—Henry Kelsey Penetrates as far as the Valley of the Saskatchewan—Sanford and Arrington, Known as “Red Cap,” Found Henley House Inland from Albany—Beset from Without, the Company is also Beset from Within—Petitions Against the Charter—Increase of Capital—Restoration of the Bay from France 277 CHAPTER XVI Old Captain Knight, Beset by Gold Fever, Hears the Call of the North—The Straits and Bay—The First Harvest of the Sea at Dead Man’s Island—Castaways for Three Years—The Company, Beset by Gold Fever, Increases its Stock—Pays Ten Per Cent. on Twice Trebled Capital—Coming of Spies Again 298 CHAPTER XVII The Company’s Prosperity Arouses Opposition—Arthur Dobbs and the Northwest Passage and the Attack on the Charter—No Northwest Passage is Found, but the French Spur the English to Renewed Activity 320 CHAPTER XVIII The March Across the Continent Begins—The Company Sends a Man to the Blackfeet of the South Saskatchewan—Anthony Hendry is the First Englishman to Penetrate to the Saskatchewan—The First Englishman to Winter West of Lake Winnipeg—He Meets the Sioux and the Blackfeet and Invites them to the Bay 334 CHAPTER XIX Extension of Trade toward Labrador, Quebec and Rockies—Hearne Finds the Athabasca Country and Founds Cumberland House on the Saskatchewan—Cocking Proceeds to the Blackfeet—Howse Finds the Pass in Rockies 355 CHAPTER XX “The Coming of the Pedlars”—A New Race of Wood-rovers Throngs to the Northwest—Bandits of the Wilds War Among Themselves—Tales of Border Warfare, Wassail and Grandeur—The New Northwest Company Challenges the Authority and Feudalism of the Hudson’s Bay Company 389 ADDENDA PAGE Map of Hudson’s First and Second Voyages 22 Map of Hudson’s Third Voyage—Hudson River 46 Map showing Hudson’s and Munck’s Voyages 408 ILLUSTRATIONS Collier’s Famous Picture of Hudson’s Last Hours _Frontispiece_ FACING PAGE Prince Rupert 10 James II, Duke of York 26 New Amsterdam or New York from an Old Print of 1660 34 Albany from an Old Print 34 The Duke of Marlborough 42 Le Moyne d’Iberville 58 Iberville’s Ship Run Aground Off Nelson in a Hurricane 74 Churchill Harbor as Drawn by Munck 82