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The Young Fur Traders, by R.M. Ballantyne
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Title: The Young Fur Traders
Author: R.M. Ballantyne
Release Date: June 6, 2007 [EBook #21712]
Language: English
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THE YOUNG FUR TRADERS, BY R.M. BALLANTYNE.
Preface.
In writing this book my desire has been to draw an exact copy of the picture which is indelibly stamped on my own memory. I have carefully avoided exaggeration in everything of importance. All the chief and most of the minor incidents are facts. In regard to unimportant matters, I have taken the liberty of a novelist--not to colour too highly, or to invent improbabilities, but--to transpose time, place, and circumstance at pleasure; while, at the same time, I have endeavoured to convey to the reader's mind a truthful impression of the general effect--to use a painter's language--of the life and country of the Fur-Trader.
R.M. BALLANTYNE.
CHAPTER ONE.
PLUNGES THE READER INTO THE MIDDLE OF AN ARCTIC WINTER; CONVEYS HIM INTO THE HEART OF THE WILDERNESSES OF NORTH AMERICA; AND INTRODUCES HIM TO SOME OF THE PRINCIPAL PERSONAGES OF OUR TALE.<