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

for the first day by a Mr. Prude
nee (uncia to the bride) and
Fmnsis Loucie on sleds
Traveled all day on the river saw
6 large bands of buffalo cilled
a fat cow for supper for OUT
- selfs and dogs we brought nothing
with us to eate had to
trust to the gun for a dinner
not even a pinch of salt
this family thinking It would be quite
unvoygure like
to travel with aney thing like
cumfort, we campt arley
as we had no breackfast on leve
= ing the Fort.
9Ul. left 3 ours before day and after
cilling 2 Buffalo breckasted snow
all day blew verry coald, we left
the river and pased over
a wide and open prarie whare
the wind had fool forse campd
in a clump of pines wich we
wore tould would be our last
good incmpment cilled 2 Buffalo
more
1OUl. verry coald before day in
the caniall know woods to
protect you, had to walk all
day to prevent from freesing
snow depe know rode our
guide found know diffacoltey in finding
his way over this trackless desa
= art the drift snow alImost
blinding cilled 3 Buffalo in
all to day without leveing our strate
course camped in an oald
Blackfoot camp that had ben
fortefide in case of an atack
.lllh. Made an arley start the,
wether clere and coald, saw but
few Buffalo met 2 men on thare
to Edmonton from Carlton cilled
but one Buffalo camped among
popelar's had to slepe on dry
willos
l2!!! got on the river again
had not anuph mete for all hands
sum of the men went on ah
= ed while we remained for bra
= kefast when we came up to
them sum 2 ours after we found
them over a good fire with
a fat cow alongside of them
the tit bits of which they ware
disc using, cilled 3 cows in all
carI)ped on the bank of the river
.lJ.!!!. Started at half past one
followed the track of the Buffalo
along the river our Carialles ware
often upset in the depe Buffalos tra
= ck, we cilled 3 bufalo on the bank
of the river whare we stoped for
brakefasted thare ware 2 year oald ca
= Ifs that I rernanied within a 100
yeards of our fire all the time
we ware at backfast, the
8
dogs are all cept tied, left the
river went through a cucseshion
on hill and vally untill dark
when we arived at an Indian
camp of about 40 lodge's we
went to the Chiefs lodge (the
Broken arm) who reseved vrry
Cindley after supper the Chief
presented me with a hansum
stone pipe, the lodg was sune
filled with Indians to here the
nuse among the rest of our vis
= eters was the suninlaw of the
Chief. and acording to the Indin
Custum tuck his sete with his ba
= ck to his father and motherin
= law never adressing them but
throe a third parley, but when
they have cilled an enamey
with white hare they have the
prevealoge of adressing them the
con ware a dress trimed with
human hare I remarked that
one of his legins was spoted
and the other plane and was
tould that he had ben wou
== nded in the spoted leg the
spots ware to indecate blood
.M.!h Started late prosedieng
through an undulating cuntrey
untill we arived at an other
incamprnent of 30 lodes our
dogs driveing through the
lodges with about 200 Indian
dogs after them barking and
howling upseting the sleds and
braking the carions it was a half
owr before we could disingage our
dogs and sleds from among the lodg
= es !hare is a buffalo pond here
arived at Fort Pitt in the evening
cilled 2 Bufalo to day. Cilling betwene
Edmonton and Fort Pitt 17, at this
Fort Buffalo have ben cilled in
=sude the Foort gates, this winter. they
ware never known so numares
before I remaned here for 20 days
returened by the same convonce
in 6 days. my next trip was
to the Mountain Hous,
On the 22d of May Mr. Low
Mr. de Merse bisup of vancuvers Island
Paul Froshur and
the 2 boys I left with Colin Frasher
arived.
Th. May the 25th. left Edmonton
with 23 boats saw grate quant
= iteys of ded Bufalo along the
beach last winter the snow was
so depe that thousands died
of stavation I have counted
in site at one time no less
thep 18 drifted all night
26Ul.
saw Buffalo swiming a cross
gowing to south as the do evry
spring and returen in the fall
to the woods
27th Arived at Fort Pitt rema
= ned 2 days and left on the
M. 29lb..amence quantities ofwo
= lfs eating the carkies of the ded
Buffaloshotseverals~g
a cross the river
2d of june
saw a large partey of Indian
which proved to be a ware
parley of Blackfeete, Bood
Indians, Sursees, Grovants,
Paganes, to the amount of
500. we had a Cree in one
of the boats, who lucky for
him hid himself under one
of the boat covers before
they came up. we put asho
= re Mr Harett and myselph
went up to them they colected
all thare arms and lade them
down before Mr. H. and tould
him that they ware in serch
of the Creese or Asne boins
that the ware as numeris as
the grass in the planes that
they ware part of 1200. tents
that ware then piching on
towards Edmonton. they ware
all well mounted and anne
= d after giveing about 25 or
30 pound of toboca among
them the imbarcked, but we
had to put ashore for ano
=ther partey that fonoed us
for about 20 Miles
3d snowed all day could not
prpsede
4Ul. Arived at Carlton whare
Mr. de Merce tuck horses for
Red river a distance of 16 days
the Indians here all tuck to
the woods on hereing of the
Blackfeete
M 5th.. of june left Carlton saw no
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