Excerpt from The Great Lone Land: A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North West of America Upon his return to his tribe he remained silent and impassive his days were spent in smoking, his evenings in quiet contemplation he spoke not of his adventures in the land of the great white medicine-man. But at length the tribe grew discontented; they had expected to hear the recital of the wonders seen by their chief, and 10 He had come back to them as silent as though his wander ings had ended on the Coteau of the Missouri, or by the borders of the kitchi-gami. Their discontent found vent in words. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.