Paul Kane's Journal of his Western Travels, 1846-1848 - History and ...

u vrry ciod and good
mlUl I rcmaned here
untill ML Rowand
ccune fTom Y rk
ctary on hi way to
Edtnont n
J41Aof Agu t
welft
with 6 bouts 19 of they
men bound for the
Rockey Mounten in
charge of a Mr Lane
hevey stonn in Play
Geene Lak.e drove a
ore on a barron
rock wet all day
and night no fire
16th.
Lake Winapeg put
ashore in a squalJ nere
fiUing they boat had
tounJode
18th.Agu t
arivd at the
grand Rapid here the
boats had to be taken
out and haDed across
land for a Mile thare
was 90 peces of90 pounds
eatch per boat we
ware 3 days here
on the 22Q we pased
throe seder Lake
entered the Saskatchaw
==an agane throe a wamp
low land up to the
paw
25th August
the Paw has
a circh of ingland mi
= shon thare M Hunter
is the Minester I found
him verry cind he gave
us sum good bred from
whete of his one gowing
he cilled a small pig
whitch we fested
on for on day I vseted
the lodg of Medeson
Man here and saw
the contince ofms
Medeson bag he did
not like to let me
see it first but
hereing that I was
a grate Medeson
Man he consented
though his wife pr
otested a genst it
it was the skin of
an otter hansomle
omimented it was
fiJled with a little of
avery thing sutch
as bouns shells bits
of MineraJes red er
30
th and menny other
things to depe for
my compehention.
28th
Past the mouth of
Cumberland river for
3 dys thy men had to
hole the boats up the cu
=rent with a line. Found
the boans ora grate men
=ny Buffalo which had
bene drownd in the
ise last spring while
crossing the river saw
a large buck Muse had
a shot at him but mist
found an Indan camp
got sum povisions fro
= m them, dined on dried
Buffalo mete Tung Bever
tale and Pemacon and
Muse Mete
71h.of September
Carlton here the
Cuntrey changis in to planes
this is a grate ptase for
buffalo remaned her untiD
the boats came up I made
sketches of the fort and
2 Crey Indand one of them
a grate warer he had
ben wounded three times
by they Black feet got a
hunter to acoumpanay
us and sarted on Horse back
for Edmonton we ware aco
=mpaned by apartey of
hunters (from the Fort)
for 2 dys
12 of September
I viseted a Buffalo pound
the manner of cilling they
Buffalo in a pound is
as foUows one man gOllS
out in till he seese a
a Band of ButIaIos he starts
a hed of them in the derec
=tion of the pound they Buffalo
trys to cross a hed of him whitch
is all ways the case with them
now the pound is made like
a try angie with one side
opene bilt witch logs and
brush wood it has a gate
or dore whitch is shut when
they get in on eatch side
of the opening to the pound
is sticks put up whitch is
called ded men the branch
of fur about 4th of a mi1e
thare is men behind these
frs to friten them with
skings and hauUowing
and when they get in the
Straat thakn with arrows
thare was a pound here
that was made of they
boun fthe Buffal
saw a chase by one of
th Indane after a woulf
he rod after a band of
them urn 8 to 10 cot up
to one but th woulf would dodg
him he at last turned
him toward our partey
and after menuvereng for
sum time he drew an
arrow and put it rite
through him
13.tn.
one of the hunters cilled
a cabrey to day saw 4 Buffalo
14th
had a fine chas after
a band of cabrey they cum
up to you to see what
you are but if they get
the wind of you they are
off like litening made urn
sketches
IS1h saw a grate band
of Cree Indans made a sketch
J,,,,ut>
of Muck-e-too and Caw-ke-kis
suw-k-way the first is pouder
the second is the man that
allways speekes the last
of these dilliveres his ordere
in a low tone in his bert
the other gets on a Horse
and communicates the same
to the camp in general
The Powder is a grate waurer
and hors theefe whitch is the
too grate qualification
forachiefe
16th -
Saw a band of Asneboins
on the opisit side of the river
an they communicated with a
band on this side by sines
that thare was sum one
coming they ded not
now but it mite be the
enamey 8 of tbare young
men sarted in advance
for to reconniter they
came up to us and con
ducked us to thare cam
= p I made sum
sketches of this band
we got sum horses here
17th.
got a frite our hunter
woke us up in the nite
and tould us that the
horses ware sow len
we started in persute
but found that they
had ben fitened by they
wolfs
18th.·
Culled cabree
grate numbers here
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