Paul Kane's Journal of his Western Travels, 1846-1848 - History and ...
Paul Kane's Journal of his Western Travels, 1846-1848 - History and ...
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<strong>Paul</strong> Kane. MOUNT ST. HELENS. March 26. 1847. {Late <strong>1848</strong>-1856.} Oil on canvas. 18 x 29". Collection . Royal Ontario Museum.<br />
whare we found a canew <strong>and</strong><br />
6 men wateing for us t<strong>his</strong><br />
is a large fann with 6.000<br />
shepe <strong>and</strong> 2.000 homed cat<br />
=tle superended by Dr. Tolmey<br />
made a sketch <strong>of</strong> the Nesqualy<br />
Chief<br />
8 left Nesqualy with 6 Indans<br />
<strong>and</strong> after paddeling all night<br />
arived at Fort Victoria on<br />
the 9 at 2 a Clock P.M.<br />
Victoria is on vancouvairs<br />
Isl<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> 60. miles from the<br />
mouth <strong>of</strong> the straits <strong>and</strong><br />
90 from Nesqualy got 5<br />
Indans here <strong>and</strong> a canew to<br />
viset the diffarent tribes<br />
liveing in the Strates first<br />
[At the bottom <strong>of</strong> t<strong>his</strong> page, written<br />
upside down, is the following,<br />
presumably correlated to the asterisk.]<br />
* A prayre full <strong>of</strong> small hills Capt<br />
Wilk's party examened sum <strong>of</strong><br />
38<br />
them <strong>and</strong> found nothin but<br />
tone in th m<br />
day made a travers 10 mi .<br />
blowing fre h campt at<br />
an Indan Cawa Chin vilage I here<br />
witne sed a strange site it<br />
was 2 medison men extracting the<br />
disese from a young womoan that<br />
was sick the woman was seported<br />
by a her mother the oaldest medison<br />
= man was gowing throe minspu<br />
= lations when I entered. He had<br />
a dish <strong>of</strong> water before him<br />
which after axtracting the disese<br />
he plased in the water after about<br />
an ours singing he gave up from<br />
fetege the young man throe <strong>of</strong>f<br />
<strong>his</strong> blanc it <strong>and</strong> plased himself<br />
before the dish <strong>and</strong> made rome<br />
for me that I mite see the<br />
hole <strong>of</strong> the peronnance he<br />
then comenced jestulating in a most<br />
srange manner singing all the<br />
time while the rest cipt time<br />
by beating stick on a hoUow<br />
ub lance uch as a wooden<br />
di h after excerciseing himseflf<br />
untill the pesperiation ran down<br />
<strong>his</strong> boddy he made a spring<br />
at the young woman <strong>and</strong><br />
cetching her side with <strong>his</strong> teath<br />
<strong>and</strong> shakeing her as I have seen<br />
one dog shake an other he<br />
then let go <strong>and</strong> sade he had<br />
got it. he blew into <strong>his</strong> h<strong>and</strong><br />
<strong>and</strong> plased them in the water<br />
howlding it down for feere<br />
it mite jump out he then<br />
cot the disese with boath h<strong>and</strong>s<br />
howlding it betwene the thumb <strong>and</strong><br />
fingger <strong>of</strong> eatch h<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong><br />
held it up for me to see it<br />
looked like a pese <strong>of</strong> grissal then<br />
one <strong>of</strong> the Indans sharpenad<br />
a knife <strong>and</strong> cut it in too<br />
a pese in eatch h<strong>and</strong><br />
he thrue first I pece <strong>and</strong> then<br />
the other in the fire.<br />
I rettIrenad to vancouver on the<br />
Kane I <strong>Journal</strong>
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