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Adrift in the Ice-Fields, by Charles W. Hall
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Title: Adrift in the Ice-Fields
Author: Charles W. Hall
Release Date: May 25, 2007 [EBook #21607]
Language: English
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ADRIFT IN THE ICE-FIELDS.
BY
CAPT. CHARLES W. HALL, AUTHOR OF "THE GREAT BONANZA," ETC.
ILLUSTRATED.
BOSTON: LEE AND SHEPARD, PUBLISHERS. NEW YORK: CHARLES T. DILLINGHAM. 1877.
COPYRIGHT: BY LEE AND SHEPHARD. 1877.
PREFACE.
To open to the youth of America a knowledge of some of the winter sports of our neighbors of the maritime provinces, with their attendant pleasures, perils, successes, and reverses, the following tale has been written.
It does not claim to teach any great moral lesson, or even to be a guide to the young sportsman; but the habits of all birds and animals treated of here have been carefully studied, and, with the mode of their capture, have been truthfully described.
It attempts to chronicle