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The Fur Country
or Seventy Degrees North Latitude
by Jules Verne
Translated from the French of Jules Verne by N. D'anvers
CONTENTS
Part I
I A Soirée at Fort Reliance
II The Hudson's Bay Fur Company
III A Savant Thawed
IV A Factory
V From Fort Reliance to Fort enterprise
VI A Wapiti Duel
VII The Arctic Circle
VIII The Great Bear Lake
IX A Storm on the Lake
X A Retrospect
XI Along the Coast
XII The Midnight Sun
XIII Fort Hope
XIV Some Excursions
XV Fifteen Miles from Cape Bathurst
XVI Two Shots
XVII The Approach of Winter
XVIII The Polar Night
XIX A Neighbourly Visit
XX Mercury Freezes
XXI The Large Polar Bears
XXII Five Months More
XXIII The Eclipse of the 18th June 1860
CHAPTER I.
A SOIRÉE AT FORT RELIANCE.
On the evening of the 17th March 1859, Captain Craventy gave a fête at Fort Reliance. Our readers must not at once imagine a grand entertainment, such as a court ball, or a musical soirée with a fine orchestra. Captain Craventy's reception was a very simple affair, yet he had spared no pains to give it éclat.
In fact, under the auspices of Corporal Joliffe, the large room on the ground-floor was completely transformed. The rough walls, constructed of roughly-hewn trunks of trees piled up horizontally, were still visible, it is true, but thei