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Paul Kane. BOAT ENCAMPMENT. October /0, /847. Watercolor on paper, 5 1 /4x8 3 /i'. Collection, Stark Museum of Art.
It is strange to see the water
running boath ways from the Punch
Bowl
@It is strange that I have
not taken a mele in day light
sence I left boat incampment
we have to travl boah late
and arley for feere of being
set fast by the snow as
it sumtimes falls to the
depth of25 feet, we went ove
= r a strang loking cuntrey
to day it loks as if sum dre
=dful huracain had nocked all
the treese down throughing
them in every direction thro
=ugh the fallen timber thare
is a younger grough that it
makes it all moast imposa
= ble to get throught it
camped at the Grand Traver
= s whare thare is 3 men to
asist us a cross with a boat
we expect to cross on the horses
i!!! Crossed the Grand Travrs
in a hevey snow stonn this
morning and found the wter
just pasable for the horses
pased Ie Rocks prarie and
camped at the same plase
I had cam~d at a year a
=go the 5th.. of November, 1846.
6th. this morning the wind
is blowing intensley coald
had to pass along the shore
of a lake the wind blowing
the drift snow in our
fases pasing the fulllinth
of lake (6 or 8 m.) we had
to all walk to ceape our
= selfs warm my beard got
so matted together with ise
that I could not open
my mouth and with difacel
= ta breath through my no
=se stoped at the lodge of
one of my men and got th
=aughed out arived atjas
=pers House 4 P.M.
jaspers sitteuwated at the east
side of the Mountains though it
is soarended by them and is sub
= ject to high winds it is cep
=t as a hors poast thare are
but few Indians here what are
here are Shew-shops the mou
= ntain shepe ware verry nu
= meress while I was here I ha
= ve seene from the house no
less then 5 bands of them
at a time they men of the
plase ware bringing them
inn every day I made a sketch
of a rams hed intended for
the Govemer. I wated here for
they men to make a sled and
snow sews they had to gow a
days march for the wuoad to
mak them otT (burch) and
the river to freese harder.
Mr Frasher lent me a dod sled
and with 3 of the companeys we
started on the.
~ofNovember.
went but about 12 m. and cam
= ped at a hunters lodgs the fam
= aley of himself wife an oald woman
and 5 children the hunters wife
made a good bed of mountain cheap
skins which was the best I have
had for menney months the hun
= ter returned late in the evening
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