Farley Mowat: Lost in the Barrens

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s and one day The Deer Eater’s (a tribe friendly to the Crees) had come to the Cree camp in search of help for their desperate need of ammunition and weaponry to acquire food for the long winter. The boys after twisting the arms of the Crees!
elders were allowed to go and check out the situation with The Deer Eaters. Needless to say, the journey is one that requires tremendous strength and endurance. The boys manage to keep up most of the time but also fall back at times. The boys realize the trouble that the Deer Eaters are in and decide(actually the adventurous Jamie decides) it be a good idea to go on the hunt with them. The boys go and during the first leg of the trip Jamie and Awasin realize the size the landscape in which neither of them have ever been prior to this trip. “ The loneliness and immensity of the new wilderness seemed close down upon them” (Lost in the Barrens-page 28). Soon Denikazi(the deer eaters chief) decides he and some of his men will journey on far into the barrens in order to find the caribou they need. Denikazi tells the boys to remain where they are in order to stay away from any possible danger. The boys wait but once again Jamie gets word of an old myth regarding an Old Stone House that was only a days canoe away and decided he wants to go there with or without Awasin who is a little tentative about leaving. On the way to the Old Stone House the boys encounter a great rapid best described by Farley…”Now they were alone, and in the shrinking twilight the great river had an awesome majesty. The water was dark and heavy and the thrust of the current seemed to pass right through...