Excerpt from North of the Law Captain Cline caught the trapper's vociferations and thrust his head out of the pilot house. Flying down the Big Salmon, propelled by two wild-eyed, hatless, dishevelled men, he could see a long, slim Peterborough canoe flashing yellow with every lunge as it leaped like a thing alive. Captain Cline rang the bell for reverse. The wheel back-churned the river surface into whirl pools. Swarming against the rail, the mob of passen gers stared curiously at the belated two. 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.