Huldowget. A Story of the North Pacific Coast.
READING AGE 16+
Prior to the discovery of gold in British Columbia, in 1858, the country was controlled entirely by the Hudson's Bay Company. The servants of the company were the only white men in the great territory west of the Rocky Mountains and north of Old Oregon.
The native population at that time was estimated to be from 100,000 to 150,000, but to-day, after less than threescore years and ten of the white man's occupation and civilisation, there are but 25,000 on Government reservations. The white man's diseases and his fire-water have wiped whole tribes out of existence.
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The dawn of another day was chasing the darkness of night from the room when Collishaw half sat up in bed. He pointed his right hand at the foot of the bed. "See, see," he exclaimed. "See the shadow, see it. Look, look, it's crawling up the box. There it goes. It will save me. O God, hurry it.—Now it's gone, I'm lost," and he sobbed. "No, there ……
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