Paul Kane's Journal of his Western Travels, 1846-1848 - History and ...
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<strong>Paul</strong> Kane. BRIGADE OF BOATS. July 26, /848.[ Late /~/856.J Oil on canvas. /8 x 29". Collection. Royal Ontario Museum.<br />
House whare I found<br />
Sur G. Simson <strong>and</strong> <strong>his</strong> Counsal<br />
transacting thare aneul bisne<br />
= ss I remaned here untill the<br />
M. 24th.. <strong>of</strong> july <strong>and</strong> left with<br />
Mr McKinsey with 5 boats<br />
caqlped 5 m. below the Fort<br />
25m:<br />
Breckfasted at the little isl<strong>and</strong><br />
pased the spder Isl<strong>and</strong>s (these n<strong>and</strong><br />
are enfested with spiders) <strong>and</strong><br />
camped at point de Tramble or<br />
papeler point<br />
26th.. left with a strong brese<br />
which freshined into a perfect<br />
gale the Genta1man in charge<br />
made sines to the guide (whose<br />
boat I was in) to put in for<br />
the shore, the Majer could<br />
st<strong>and</strong> the battel <strong>of</strong> Coruna<br />
(whare he was wounded) but<br />
the swells <strong>of</strong> Lake Winapeg<br />
60<br />
completely upsitt, him, but<br />
the guide did knot seeme to<br />
underst<strong>and</strong> the signal <strong>and</strong><br />
cept on <strong>his</strong> strate coarce<br />
through a moast tremendous<br />
swell sum <strong>of</strong> our Indians<br />
ware seesick, put in to Bar<br />
=eings river staid all the rest<br />
<strong>of</strong> the day wind bound<br />
27th. lite wind brackfasted at<br />
sturgun river <strong>and</strong> camped<br />
at rabbet point pigons<br />
pleJ)ty cilled 2 skunks here<br />
28.t1l. Wind bound untill 2<br />
o c Camped at the dogs hed.<br />
the Indians which our crew<br />
consisted <strong>of</strong>. made ajonggalrer<br />
or medison lodge which con<br />
sistest <strong>of</strong>8 or 10 poles ben<br />
drove in the ground in a sercal about<br />
10 feete high, the sircal is about<br />
3 feete in surcumfarance <strong>and</strong> covered<br />
over with skins a<br />
the mediseon man gets in<br />
=side with a rattle <strong>and</strong> come<br />
= nces <strong>his</strong> incantation to the<br />
Grate Spirit you are aloude<br />
to ask aney questhion you think<br />
fit on paing a small pese <strong>of</strong><br />
tobaca the mane obgect is to<br />
get a fare wind, after singing<br />
<strong>and</strong> shakeing the lodg for abo<br />
ut 2 ours he anounced that<br />
he saw 5 boats with thare<br />
sale set which was greted with<br />
a grunt by those out side I<br />
asked whare the caneus <strong>of</strong> Sur J<br />
Richerdson ware <strong>of</strong> a time he tould<br />
me that he saw them at a san<br />
=dy point we had pased 2 days<br />
before sum enquired for thare<br />
fameleys, sum he saw eateing<br />
Sturgon, sum at one thing <strong>and</strong><br />
sum at another. The Mager<br />
is a ferm belever in thare mo<br />
=diseon, he tould me that a can<br />
Kane/ <strong>Journal</strong>
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