New Light on the Early History of the Greater Northwest

ISBN-10: 1230358323
ISBN-13: 9781230358321
Series: New Light on the Early History of the Greater Northwest
Pages: 172
Language: English
Published: 2013-09
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Author: Alexander Henry

Description

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ... THE BRIGADE AGAIN DIVIDED. TJ Notwithstanding buffaloes and other animals are so numerous, we are again obliged to depend upon our hooks and lines. We take plenty of catfish and lacaishe. The Indians are too much alarmed to hunt, and I think it prudent to send my own men. At two o'clock the discovering party returned, but had seen only two or three wounded bulls, and a dead one, which must have been shot by some of us. I sent Langlois in two canoes with his baggage to camp at the entrance of Reed river, on the spot where I intended he should build. The canoes having returned, we gummed and prepared for departure to-morrow, giving one of my large canoes to the Indians to embark their families, as they supposed they would be safer all together, in one large canoe, than separated in small ones. I leave exactly one-half of my goods here, in charge of Michel Langlois. Those who remain here are: Langlois, wife, and child; Lagasse and wife; Masson [wife, and two children ?]; Hamel, Roy, Dubois, Pouliot, and the wife and two children of Desmarais; total, 16.6' Those who go above are: myself, Desmarais, Bellegarde, Daisville, Roger [sic], Benoit, Larocque, sr., Larocque, jr., Beauchemin, Lafrance, Barbe, Charbonneau, McDonald, and Pierre (the negro). Thus we are 14 men, and we have not one woman or child with us. ' Compare the list on pp. 49-52. The copy before me gives " 16 " total. The discrepancy occurs in the case of Masson, of whose family nothing appears in the former list, but who is here credited with a representation of "4 " persons. CHAPTER III. THE PARK RIVER POST, 180O-OI. KEPT. 4th. Loaded my canoes, and went along with *** them to the river, when, giving all hands a dram, I sent them off. I remained some time with...