Selwyn House School - Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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SI-ILWYN HOUSE SCHOOL NI.-XG.-XZINE life being Venus, on which we had established many colonies. Now an exploring party was being sent off to the outpost of the Solar System, the planet Pluto Y Sir Gordon Frost was a proud man, proud because he had been detailed to captain the trip of exploration to Pluto. He was very young to pilot such an expedition, being a mere two hundred and fifteen years old, and having had only ten gland injections. john Macdonald, his closest friend, was to be second in command, and there were some twenty other men to complete the party. A sudden hush fell over the crowd which watched with bated breath, then with a hiss and roar the rocket shot out of the long steel tube and up out of sight into the blue. The journey was eventful, and as they travelled practically with the speed of light, it was a year before they arrived within two hundred miles of the planet. Then they had their first surprise. Doctor Charles l.eamanne, the astronomer, discovered that the atmosphere was quite breathable, though the oxygen content was slightly greater than that on earth. Their second surprise was that on turning their light-wave amplifiers, Ca remarkable machine of that age which caught the light waves and produced a three-dimensional image in a glass globel on the surface of the planet, they discovered, much to their great joy, that it was inhabited. Tiny but beautiful winged creatures merely one foot long were Hitting everywhere on the surface of the globe. These creatures were covered with gorgeous plumage of weird unearthly colours. Sir Gordon descended from the ship, fully armed with ray-pistols, with Doctor I.eamanne and four of the men. They were immediately surrounded by Quormalians, as they learned that the creatures were called. Suddenly a clear thought entered their amazed brains, l am Mokapz Furzu, lfmperor of Quormaliag I have studied you care- fully and see that you come peacefully. l bear a message to Colin VIII, Emperor of.-Xrzove flafarthl. Together with Durzove fVenusl we would make a great power. Take this to your lsfmperor. A little individual fluttered to them, handing Sir Gordon a treaty for the emperor. As a result of this treaty the three great planets were united, forming a mighty solar empire. Earth was vastly overpopulated, and needed another planet to which to send her surplus population. So lriarth, Venus, and Pluto put their heads together H, and decided to include Mars. They first put an artificial atmosphere on it, then each planet transported many trees and plants and bushes to Mars. ln that way the Great lrfmpire of Mars, Venus, Pluto and lrfarth came into being under limperor Colin VIII. D.H., Form III. Eine juurnie bans les huis .Ie vais vous raconter une excursion en canot que -i'ai faire l'automne dernier sur la riviere hlattawin. l.a Mattawin est une riviere qui prend sa source dans les l.aurentides et se jette dans la Saint-Maurice au nord de Shawinigan lfalls. Nous sommes partis du camp ou fetais, avec des provisions, une hache et mon attirail de peche. Tetais seul avec mon guide. Nous avironnions tous les deux. Des que les petites cabanes du camp eurent disparues, nous nous trouvzimes com- pletement seuls sur la riviere. Pas un signe de vie, sauf le rire moqueur d'un huard evail- ll4l

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FOR THE SCHOOL YE.-XR 1936-193' W'e had gone a week when we were again attacked by Indians called Nlundrucus Indians. This time we were not so fortunate, and our two helpers were killed, and when this happened, we thought it better to Hee, so we just by good luck got out of their sight. W'e ran and ran, stopping now and then for rests till it was quite dark, then we rested till morning. All this time our supplies were giving out, and we had hardly had time to explore. The next morning I looked at my compass, for rather tried to look at it,l but found that in running so much the previous night it had fallen out of my pocket. Fortunately my friends had Compasses, so that was not so bad. That day we trudged on, studying plants and the different animals that were about. All the time we were going we did not know that our Compasses were not working correctly, and that we were not going in the right direction, so naturally we did not think of looking at the sun till we saw that the Compasses were not saying the same. That night we ate the last of our supplies. We were for the next few days starving without even water in the centre of the jungle. W'e then found a more fertilized region as far as animals were concerned, so we killed a few birds and ate them, which relieved us greatly. The next day we Came to a big stream or small river where all along the opposite shore was a large clearing, and we did not specially want to go where there was no food, so after talking things over we decided to make a dugout and go up stream which we hoped would bring us somewhere. Three days of hard work soon found us in possession of a crude dugout. The next day we started off, taking a supply of dead birds. For tive days we travelled without any sign of civilization. But on the afternoon of the sixth day we saw some Indians who ran away when they saw us but then came back and were very gentle, unlike any of the other Indians we had seen. They told us of the things that were to be gotten, such as diiferent kinds of eatable birds, and they gave us things to fish with. It was then that we realized where we were because the Indians told us. W'e had been travelling on the Tapajos River. The Indians traded with us and gave us food and our lodgings. When we bade them farewell, they offered to send two guides with us but we said that we liked to travel by ourselves, though two guides would help us very much. They gave us a dugout made much better than ours and we felt ashamed because we had had axes, good knives and other implements with which to work. We continued up the Tapajos River till we came to Cuvaba. The trip took us a little less than a month and was very uneventful. From Cuvaba we took a train to the Atlantic Coast and from there to New York by steamer, and from New York to Montreal. The whole trip in the jungle took about a year, and we had travelled 985 miles. W'e arrived home April 26th 1893. . . B.R., Form -1. Qhhenturzs on Blum It was in the year 3285. Huge crowds were assembled at the great airport outside London. The skies were clouded with darting airocabs. The Thames was dotted with boats, large and small, actuated by electric motors. The world had gone mad with ex- citement, and why F Because man had accomplished his age-long dream, space travel l Already Mars, Venus and Mercury had been explored, the only one capable of bearing l13l

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FOR THI-I SCHOOL YEAR 10361-1937 lant les echos. La foret qui nous entourait etait sombre et majestueuse et paraissait impenetrable. .-Xpres avoir avironne quelques milles nous entendimes le bruit de rapides qui de- venait de plus en plus fort. Le guide me dit qu'il les avait deja sautes. Je voulus les sauter aussi. Pin quelques secondes, notre eanot bondissait dans les vagues des rapides et l'ecume nous eclaboussait. Mon guide me cria de ne plus avironner et de me tenir solidement. :Xu bout de quelques minutes dans le tumulte des eaux, ou nous semblions n'eviter les rochers que par miracle, nous Hottions de nouveau sur une eau tranquille. Un peu plus loin, on entendait le grondement de la Chute Grand'Mere. Il fallut faire du portage. :Xu pied de la Chute, qui tombait pardessus un grand mur de rochers, en emportant a'en0i-mes troncs d'arbres comme s'ils etaient des fetus de paille, le guide alluma un lieu, et fit bouillir du the et rechaurler des feves au lard. Puis, apres avoir fume sa pipe, il prit le canot sur ses epaules et s'enfonQa dans le bois. Il fallait maintenant retourner au Camp. Le portage etait tres 51 pic. :Xu dela de la montagne qui bordait la riviere, il y avait une chaine de lacs et de portages qui nous ramenerent. Mon homme me montra des pistes d'ours qui suivaient le sentier, et tout d'un coup nous entendimes tout pres, des Craquements de branches, comme si un gros animal s'enfuyait au galop. Cetait YOLIT probablement un orignal. :Xu premier lac, nous rencontrames un homme seul dans un canot. Cetait garde lieu. Ces hommes passent des mois d'ete dans les bois pour signaler les feux foret. Il nous dit qu'il venait de voir un orignal sur une pointe de sable a l'autre bout lac. lforignal etait parti mais nous vimes le sable couvert de pistes d'orignauX et Chevreuils venus boire. u n d e du de Comme nous arrivions au dernier lac le soleil se couchait. Cetait un bon moment 3 pour pecher. Hn moins d'une heure, -i':1vz1is pris neul' belles truites. Il faisait noir pour traverser le dernier portage. Il fallut aller lentement. Nous etions au camp 21 neuf heures apres treize heures Cle canot et de marehe. -Vetais fatigue mais content de mon expedition. If., Form VI Tklpun a Eater 'iiilp U11 Lib, Lili' bfllllfifllf, Tha! ar! 50 ,rpzzfkfiug wlzife, I am thy .fervmzf dulffuf, I love llzvv gorgmuf Jighr. Thy flew.: are srlroug 115 IllI'l' rope: They guard lhy fflffl' home: ,ind tlzfy would be llziue onli' Imp U u1zzifz'c'm f!1Il7ll't'd7f0 roam. Fi O11 Ilzou arf Qurerz of af! .fl1ej70wcr.r, E'e11 grwztw' fhllll ilu' row, ,l1uz'pa.r,r away fha evmilzg hour.: By rourfing .rweet repose. l15l H.F.S., Form 5.