BOURGEOIS - Toronto Public Library

340 CHARLES MAdKENZIE
night several shots were heard. This created singing and
dancing; drum beating and war hoops occupied all hands to
the dawn of day, when the whole village moved forward to
brave the enemy, but all the vest.iges they found consisted only
of a dead horse with five arrows through his body. From this
inciden t it was inferred the number of the enemy did not
exceed the number of arrows found in the horse; that these five
were horse stealers: and that finding only one horse they could
not make a division and therefore settled the business as is
customary on such occasions, in this summary manner.
Mr. La Rocque having made the necessary preparations for
our journey, we left the Mississouri on the 2rd April and arrived
at Assiniboine Fort on the 22nd May, where Chaboillez received
us kindly, thanl{ed us for our winter toil, and, as a token of his
approbation, made each of us a present. of a horse.
So ended my first trip to the Mississouri ; my next task will
be to relate the observations made in my second expedition.