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                       Jules of the Great Heart.




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                         [Illustration: Jules]




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                              Jules of the
                              Great Heart


                       “Free” Trapper and Outlaw
                        in the Hudson Bay Region
                           in the Early Days




                                   By

                             Lawrence Mott

                 With Frontispiece by F. E. Schoonover


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                                London:

                           William Heinemann

                                  1905




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                          All rights reserved

               Copyright—LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 1905

               Copyright—NEW YORK: THE CENTURY CO., 1905




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                                CONTENTS

                CHAPTER
                     I. A TRAGEDY OF THE SNOW                   1
                    II. AN UNRECOVERED TRAIL                   13
                   III. JULES OF THE GREAT HEART               25
                    IV. JULES OF THE RESCUE                    36
                     V. JULES’S STRATAGEM                      54
                    VI. NOËL                                   63
                   VII. “REMEMBER JULES!”                      73
                  VIII. “SOMME T’ING FOR HEEM”                 88
                    IX. MAN AGAINST MAN                        98
                     X. INTO THE NORTH                        112
                    XI. THE NEW COUNTRY                       118
                   XII. THE MEETING                           133
                  XIII. SOLITUDE                              149
                   XIV. LIGHT OF THE EVENING                  157
                    XV. “NO GREATER FRIEND....”               160
                   XVI. THE MESSENGER                         165
                  XVII. THE DREAM OF MORNING STAR             176
                 XVIII. FULFILMENT OF THE DREAM               196
                   XIX. THE AWAKENING OF THE GREAT HEART      212
                    XX. THE QUEST                             225
                   XXI. ON THE HEIGHTS                        235
                  XXII. ETIENNE ANNAOTAHA                     260
                 XXIII. THE CROSS ON THE MOUNTAIN             272
                  XXIV. “JE SUIS CONTENT!”                    274




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                              TO MY MOTHER
                          IN LOVING GRATITUDE
                              AND DEVOTION


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                                   I

                         A TRAGEDY OF THE SNOW


MANOU stopped on a snow hill, and looked back over the way he had come;
then, steadying himself against the heavy northwest wind, he took off
his snow-shoes. The little steel-like particles of crust, eddying about
with the force of the gale, stung and bit him, and his six
“_huskies_”[1] crept under the lee of the sledge and huddled together.

Footnote 1:

   Sledge dogs.

He chafed and pounded his aching feet, untying the thongs that bound the
moccasins, his face drawn with pain; then he sat down beside the dogs
and shoved his feet among their warm furry bodies. They growled and
snarled, as if resenting this attempt to take some of their precious
heat from them, but he paid no attention. Continually his head turned to
the back trail, and he watched eagerly in that direction. Nothing but
snowy wastes met his eye, undulating on and on into the distance; not a
sound could his ears catch but the crisp _rustle-rustle_ of