Current in the river to buck against, and they had been up since peep of
day. So they started to make preparations for sleeping. The giant
timber-cruiser watched them get their sleeping-bags ready, that is,
Cuthbert and Eli, with more or less curiosity, for evidently he knew
little or nothing about such Arctic necessities, even though he had
accompanied an explorer for many hundred miles into the great unmapped
region beyond Hudson Bay--at least he claimed to have done so. Perhaps
there was also a bit of envy in the looks he bent upon these evidences
of comfort, for he could appreciate the value of such contrivances
during a Northern winter, especially to a man whose business was apt to
take him outdoors, regardless of the weather. He had an apology for a
blanket in his
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