Trapping--The Fur-bearing Animals--Value of different Furs--The Trapper’s Start into the Forest--How to make a Marten Trap--Steel Traps for Wolves and Foxes--The Wolverine--The Way he Gets a Living--His Destructiveness and Persecution of the Trapper--His Cunning--His Behaviour when caught in a Trap--La Ronde’s Stories of the Carcajou--The Trapper’s Life--The Vast Forest in Winter-- Sleeping Out--The Walk--Indians and Half-breeds--Their Instinct in the Woods--The Wolverine Demolishes our Traps--Attempts to Poison him--Treemiss’s Arrival--He relates his Adventures--A Scrimmage in the Dark--The Giant Tamboot--His Fight with Atahk-akoohp--Prowess of Tamboot--Decide to send our Men to Red River for Supplies--Delays 99 CHAPTER VIII. Milton visits Carlton--Fast Travelling--La Ronde and Bruneau set out for Fort Garry--Trapping with Misquapamayoo-- Machinations against the Wolverine--The Animals’ Fishery--The Wolverine outwits us--Return Home-- The Cree Language--How an Indian tells a Story--New Year’s Day among the Crees--To the Prairies again--The Cold--Travelling with Dog-sleighs--Out in the Snow-- Our New Attendants--Prospect of Starvation--A Day of Expectation--A Rapid Retreat--The Journey Home-- Indian Voracity--Res Augusta Domi--Cheadle’s Journey to the Fort--Perversity of his Companions--“The Hunter” yields to Temptation--Milton’s Visit to Kekekooarsis--A Medicine Feast--The New Song--Cheadle’s Journey Home-- Isbister and his Dogs--Mahaygun, “The Wolf”--Pride and Starvation--Our Meeting at White Fish Lake 113 CHAPTER IX. Our New Acquaintances--Taking it Quietly--Mahaygun Fraternises with Keenamontiayoo--The Carouse-- Importunities for Rum--The Hunter asks for more--A Tiresome Evening--Keenamontiayoo Renounces us--His Night Adventure--Misquapamayoo’s Devotion--The Hunter returns Penitent--The Plains again--The Wolverine on our Track--The Last Band of Buffalo--Gaytchi Mohkamarn, “The Big Knife”--The Cache Intact--Starving Indians-- Story of Keenamontiayoo--Indian Gambling--The Hideous Philosopher--Dog Driving--Shushu’s Wonderful Sagacity--A Long March--Return to La Belle Prairie--Household Cares-- Our Untidy Dwelling--Our Spring Cleaning--The Great Plum Pudding--Unprofitable Visitors--Rover’s Accomplishments Astonish the Indians--Famine Everywhere 138 CHAPTER X.