The Great Lone Land

At York Factory on Hudson Bay there lived, not very long ago, a man who had stored away in his mind one fixed resolution it was to write a book. "When I put down," he used to say, "all that I have seen, and all that I havn’t seen, I will be able to write a good book." It is probable that had this man carried his intention into effect the negative portion of his vision would have been more successfal than the positive. People are generally more ready to believe what a man hasn’t seen’than what he has seen. So, at least, thought Karkakonias the Chippeway Chief at Pembina.