One little incident of the journey home serves to illustrate the rough and ready manner of proceeding characteristic of the voyageurs. One of the sleighs in passing along the side of a steep hill, upset, overturning with it the horse, who lay helplessly on his back, with his legs kicking in the air. Cheadle was proceeding to unharness him; but La Ronde cried, “Ah! non, Monsieur, pas besoin;” and both lifting together, they sent horse and sleigh rolling over and over down the hill, until at last they came right side up, and the train proceeded. Great was the delight of Milton and Bruneau at the happy return, and Keenamontiayoo and some Indians who were at the house were not slow to assist in the feast of fresh meat, which lasted far into the night, the party from the plains enjoying, on their part, the luxury of bread. Truly the pleasures of eating are utterly unknown in civilised life. CHAPTER VII. 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.