[Essays and Addresses]; Volume 7 - Couverture souple

Riddell, William Renwick

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1176597604 ISBN 13 : 9781176597600

Editeur : Nabu Press, 2010

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Toronto Peninsula in the midst of his own band of Mississaugas, the Indian Murderer Ogetonicut (only that he might be drowned in Lake Ontario with Judge, Lawyers, High Constable, witnesses, interpreters, captain and crew when the Government Schooner Speedy conveying them to the Assize Town was lost with all hands, spurlos versenkt, till when a handful of North West Mounted Police went to the International Boundary to receive Sitting Bull and his braves, our system has always been not to permit the native to imagine himself different from ourselves in obedience to law, but to treat him as an ordinary British subject submissive to law until he proves himself otherwise. While there has been an occasional exception, it has almost invariably happened that one or two North West Mounted Policemen could enter the camp of a band of Indians and exercise their authority as freely and as safely as though they were in the streets of Toronto. The native knows that the arm of Canadian law is as strong as it is long. With the Indian we have the same determination to enforce the law as with the white, and we have never made a hero of the gunman or the professional gambler, but have treated them as the brutal murderer and the vulgar thief which are. Bret Harte could never find a model in our Northwest. After four days journey through water and snow, the little partyreached the mouth of the Coppermine, and while the Eskimos had not yet arrived, an Eskimo boy with the party, standing on the top of an island, saw through a glass six sleds far out on the ice approaching: these disappeared but another sled reached the police party on the following day. The sled contained an important witness who said that Uluksak was on an island about ten miles out in the gulf (apparently with the former party of six sleds). They went to the island where they found the Eskimos in their skin tents
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Nabu Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1176597604
• ISBN 13: 9781176597600
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 268
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible