The river was full of floating ice, the water turbulent, and the craft a crazy collection of logs and boards. For days the undaunted Bishop and his one companion, an Indian, plied the poles, chilled to the bone but never giving up, until at length an icy barrier formed across the river, and they were compelled to abandon the raft.] I have been asked to write this narrative of the life of Bishop Bompas for boys and girls. The scenes among which his strenuous course was run—the lands of the Red Indians and Eskimo—have always appealed to the imagination of the young; and the endurance which he showed in his amazing journeys, and the dauntless courage with which he faced innumerable perils for …
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