Adventure Magazine Cover, April 3, 1918 — page 5: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

ewig i a = Ned tin April a, 1918 — aq ) we pont al i Author of “The Ocean Born,” “The Wave Bound,’ etc. CHAPTER I A CHANGE OF COURIERS HE blood-red, five-pointed stars emblazoned on the warm yellow Gas bows of the seven birch-bark canoes which skirted Lake Su- perior’s north shore advertised the fleet as a Hudson’s Bay Company brigade. The predominancy of James Bay Crees among the crews told that the brigade was fresh from one of the bay posts—in all probability Moose Factory and that the route of travel had been up the Moose and Missinaibie Rivers, across the Height of Land and down the Michipicoten to the broad and restless bosom of Superior itself. Also, the magnificence of the leading canoe and the elaborate costumes of its occupants proclaimed it a Factor’s craft. A splendid six-fathom canoe, molded, sewn and gum- lightly as foam under the urge of half a dozen Indian paddlers, bowsman, steersman, two middlemen paired forward, two paired aft. In the bow fluttered the crimson flag of the Ancient and Honorable Company. From the stern streamed a long gonfalon of the same shade, crisping and crackling in the wind and slapping its pennant-like tip with a re- sounding smack upon the passing wave crests. From the paddle shafts blew streamers of. gaudy wool, and these flying gleams of color mingled with the glint of bright-beaded moc- casins, red and blue leggings, flaming belts and scarfs, brilliant fillets bound about the black-haired heads carrying still more bril- hant feathers, long, graceful plumes dyed in violent colors, which slanted back on the wearers’ shoulders and marked them as trusted canoemen of a Factor. 7 The Factor himself, a young man com- pared to the aging priest who shared his place amidships, half sat, half reclined upon - med by master aborigine hands, it glided a rich robe of snow-white ermine-skin. The Copyright, 1918, by The Ridgway Company in the United States and Great Britain. Al rights reserved. 3 Gomigdooksrecom