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OF VOLUME I

PART I

Henry Hudson's First Voyage 3

Hudson's Second Voyage 16

Hudson's Third Voyage 26

Hudson's Fourth Voyage 49

The Adventures of the Danes on Hudson Bay--Jens Munck's Crew 72

PART II

Radisson, the Pathfinder, Discovers Hudson Bay and Founds the Company of Gentlemen Adventurers 97

The Adventures of the First Voyage--Radisson Driven Back Organizes the Hudson's Bay Company and Writes his Journals of Four Voyages--The Charter and the First Shareholders--Adventures of Radisson on the Bay--The Coming of the French and the Quarrel 111

"Gentlemen Adventurers of England"--Lords of the Outer Marches--Two Centuries of Company Rule--Secret Oaths--The Use of Whiskey--The Matrimonial Offices--The Part the Company Played in the Game of International Juggling--How Trade and Voyages Were Conducted 132

If Radisson Can Do Without the Adventurers, the Adventurers Cannot Do Without Radisson--The Eruption of the French on the Bay--The Beginning of the Raiders 162

The Adventurers Furious at Radisson, Find it Cheaper to Have him as a Friend than Enemy and Invite him Back--The Real Reason Why Radisson Returned--The Treachery of Statecraft--Young Chouart Outraged, Nurses his Wrath and Gayly Comes on the Scene Monsieur P?r?--Scout and Spy 180

Wherein the Reasons for Young Chouart Groseiller's Mysterious Message to Our Good Friend "P?r?" are Explained--The Forest Rovers of New France Raid the Bay by Sea and Land--Two Ships Sunk--P?r?, the Spy, Seized and Sent to England 198

Pierre le Moyne d'Iberville Sweeps the Bay 211

D'Iberville Sweeps the Bay 228

What Became of Radisson?--New Facts on the Last Days of the Famous Pathfinder 256

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

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

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

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

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

"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

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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

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

Le Moyne d'Iberville's French Rangers and Canadian Wood-runners Besieging Fort Nelson 90

Bienville 106

Photograph of the Copy of Radisson's Voyage 114

Rupert House 130

Copy of Robson's Drawing of York Harbor 170

Silver Fox Skins 178

Montagu House 202

Petition of the H. B. C. Signed by Churchill, or Marlborough 218

Terms of Surrender Between Le Moyne d'Iberville and Governor Walsh at York Fort 234

Radisson's House 258

Fort Rae, on Great Slave Lake 362

Traders Leaving Athabasca Landing 378

FOREWORD

In all, how large was their fur empire? Larger, by actual measurement, much larger, than Europe. Now what person would risk reputation by saying no complete account had yet been written of all Europe? The thing is so manifestly impossible, it is absurd. Not one complete account, but hundreds of volumes on different episodes will go to the making of such a complete history. So is it of the vast area ruled by the Hudson's Bay Company. The time will come when each district will demand as separate treatment as a Germany, or a France or an Italy in its history. All that can be attempted in one volume or one series of volumes is the portrayal of a single movement, or a single episode, or a single character. In this account, I have attempted to tell the story of the Company only as adventurer, pathfinder, empire-builder, from Rupert's Land to California--feudal lord beaten off the field by democracy. Where the empire-builder merges with the colonizer and pioneer, I have stopped in each case. In Manitoba, the passing of the Company was marked by the Riel Rebellion; in British Columbia, by the mad gold stampede; in Oregon, by the terrible Whitman massacres; in California, by the fall of Spanish power. All these are dramas in themselves worthy of poet or novelist; but they are not germane to the Adventurers. Therefore, they are not given here. Who takes up the story where I leave off, must hang the narrative on these pegs.

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