Marooned in the Forest: The Story of a Primitive Fight for Life

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <div class='page'> <div id='i006' class='figcenter i006'> <ANTIMG src='images/i006.jpg' alt='' style='width:100%' /> <div class='figcaption'>A CRUSOE OF THE WILDERNESS</div> </div></div> <div class='page'> <div style='text-align:center'> <h1>MAROONED IN THE FOREST</h1> <div style='font-size:1.1em;margin-top:0.5em;'>THE STORY OF A PRIMITIVE FIGHT FOR LIFE</div> <div style='margin-top:0.5em'>BY</div> <div style='font-size:1.2em'>A. HYATT VERRILL</div> <div style='font-size:0.8em; margin-top:0.5em;'>AUTHOR OF</div> <div style='font-size:0.8em'>“HARPER’S BOOK FOR YOUNG NATURALISTS” ETC.</div> <div style='margin-top:2em;'>ILLUSTRATED</div> <div style='margin-top:2em;font-size:1.2em'>HARPER &amp; BROTHERS PUBLISHERS</div> <div style='letter-spacing:0.07em;'>NEW YORK AND LONDON</div> </div></div> <div class='page'> <div style='text-align:center'> <div style='font-variant:small-caps;'>Books by</div> <div style='margin-bottom:0.7em;font-size:larger;'>ALPHEUS HYATT VERRILL</div> </div> <div> <div style='text-align:center'> <div style='display:inline-block;text-align:left;'> <p class='booklist'>MAROONED IN THE FOREST. Illustrated.</p> <p class='booklist'>HARPER’S BOOK FOR YOUNG NATURALISTS.<br/>Illustrated. 8vo</p> <p class='booklist'>HARPER’S WIRELESS BOOK<br/>Illustrated. Crown 8vo</p> <p class='booklist'>HARPER’S AIR CRAFT FOR BOYS<br/>Illustrated. Crown 8vo</p> <p class='booklist'>HARPER’S BOOK FOR YOUNG GARDENERS.<br/>Crown 8vo</p> <p class='booklist'>HARPER’S GASOLINE-ENGINE BOOK.<br/>Illustrated Crown 8vo.</p> </div> </div> <hr style='border:none; border-bottom:1px solid; width:4em;' /> <div style='text-align:center'>HARPER &amp; BROTHERS, NEW YORK</div> </div> <div style='text-align:center;margin-top:2em;'> <div style=''>Marooned in the Forest</div> <hr style='border:none; border-bottom:1px solid; width:4em;' /> <div style=''>Copyright, 1916, by Harper &amp; Brothers</div> <div style=''>Printed in the United States of America</div> <div style=''>Published May, 1916</div> </div></div> <div class='page'> <div style='text-align:center; page-break-before:always'>CONTENTS</div> <table summary='' style='margin:1em auto;'> <tr><td></td><td><SPAN href='#ch_P'>Preface</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td>I.</td><td><SPAN href='#ch_I'>Alone in the Wilderness</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td>II.</td><td><SPAN href='#ch_II'>Food and Shelter</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td>III.</td><td><SPAN href='#ch_III'>Important Discoveries</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td>IV.</td><td><SPAN href='#ch_IV'>I Set Forth on My Journey</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td>V.</td><td><SPAN href='#ch_V'>I Go a-Fishing</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td>VI.</td><td><SPAN href='#ch_VI'>I Meet with an Accident</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td>VII.</td><td><SPAN href='#ch_VII'>Crippled</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td>VIII.</td><td><SPAN href='#ch_VIII'>A Midnight Visitor</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td>IX.</td><td><SPAN href='#ch_IX'>Winter Sets In</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td>X.</td><td><SPAN href='#ch_X'>Back to the Primitive</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td>XI.</td><td><SPAN href='#ch_XI'>An Unexpected Meeting</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td>XII.</td><td><SPAN href='#ch_XII'>Strange Adventures</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td>XIII.</td><td><SPAN href='#ch_XIII'>Spring Approaches</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td>XIV.</td><td><SPAN href='#ch_XIV'>I Find a Companion</SPAN></td></tr> <tr><td>XV.</td><td><SPAN href='#ch_XV'>The End of the Trail</SPAN></td></tr> </table></div> <div class='page'> <div style='text-align:center;'>ILLUSTRATIONS</div> <div style='text-align:center'> <div style='display:inline-block;text-align:left;'> <ul> <li><SPAN href='#i006'>A Crusoe of the Wilderness</SPAN></li> <li><SPAN href='#i023'>“I Called Out Joe’s Name”</SPAN></li> <li><SPAN href='#i031a'>“I Emptied the Contents of My Pockets on a Rock”</SPAN></li> <li><SPAN href='#i031b'>“I Struck the Stone with My Knife-blade”</SPAN></li> <li><SPAN href='#i053'>Setting the Deadfall</SPAN></li> <li><SPAN href='#i065'>“I Plucked a Bit of the Queer Growth and Tasted It”</SPAN></li> <li><SPAN href='#i079'>“With Steady Strokes I Whirled the Drill Around and Around”</SPAN></li> <li><SPAN href='#i231'>“I Aimed at the Sleek, Brown Body”</SPAN></li> <li><SPAN href='#i259'>“I Looked upon a Broad, Fair Valley”</SPAN></li> </ul></div> </div></div> <div class='page'> <h2 id='ch_P'>PREFACE</h2> <p>If a man or a well-grown boy is lost in the wilderness, what can he do? Shall he whimper and give up? Never, if he has real blood in his veins. He faces a primitive struggle for life. It is a question of reinventing primitive means of living. How to make a fire, how to obtain food, how to clothe and shelter himself&mdash;these are the immediate problems to be met. He is a Robinson Crusoe of the wilderness.</p> <p>This story of a modern Crusoe in the far Northern forests embodies many actual experiences, and it is an epitome of the basic facts of outdoor life. In books like Harper’s <i>Camping and Scouting</i>, <i>Outdoor Book</i>, <i>Young Naturalists</i>, and others, the appliances of civilization are always at hand. It is a very different situation when one is lost in the depths of the forest without food, fire, weapons, or compass. But the problem of working out means of existence is one that will interest every lover of outdoor life, whether his interest is in camping, canoeing, fishing, or hunting, whether he is a member of the Boy Scouts or the Woodcraft Indians or simply an individual who knows the call of the wild. The adventures of Mr. Verrill’s hero forth a story of thrilling interest and constant suspense. And it is also full of suggestions which will stimulate many readers to work out some of the hero’s problems for themselves.</p> </div> <div class='chapter'> <div style='text-align:center; font-size:1.4em'>MAROONED IN THE FOREST</div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />