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

=adain had th temerata to peep
LInder the sking of the lodg
but he got such a frite that
he never got farlie over it
next morning we had a fare win
= d which they attribeted to thare
coqgering.
29m. started with a fare wind
and breckfasted at Lune nar
= rows camped at buffalo hed
3D.!!! Breckfasted at the point
mitassandarivedatFort
Alexander at 10. Dc this plase pro
cured 250. bushels of rise
from the Indians this year
they pay one third of a pint of
rum for a bushal rise can
=not be got without rum
this Fort is at the mouth of the
river
3d August left here with 4 boats and
30 men 27 of which ware Indians
2 Canadans and I Orkey man made
a portage the raped 8 feete 12. Dc, litened
the boats and
halled them up with the line. made
a portage at fall of the Pransin
Horses or silver fall 20 feete high and
camped here.
we had a small fleete a caneus
fawlloing us with the Indians
wifes and childran. 2 of our
men asked pennishion to take
wfes at the Fort ware brought
alQng
4tn. of August made the second portage
of the Silver falls the werning and childr
=an that are following us will eate us up
the 20 feete in the fonnare falls include
this, made a portage of the white mud
10 feete high, made another at the
little rock (7 feete) and camped at the
uP.I>er end of it.
5lfi. Agust left at 4 Dc and arived at
Grand
Bonet this portage is a mile a cross we
ware
obliged to stop here all day to bring the
boats and peses a cross, the wather
intensley
hot and miscitoys in mirredes
61li. pased the first and second Bonet this
morning, got frest sturgon from sum
Indians
here for brackfast, pased the Lake de
Bonet
whare sum of the Indians left for thare
rise ground. Camped in the River Naloin
miscitais so bad could not slepe. the orkn
=ie man looks as if he had the small
;&>;~sed 3 of the 6 portages comanley
called 4. Camped at the Grand Guile
=te one of the above is called the wodin
Horse, one of our men deserted from
us to day the Chiefs sun at Rat Por
=tage Cashe-Cubit or the long Tuth)
deserted this name has other interpra
=tation it menes the Tuth of a Glutten
camp
=_~d at upper end.
8m. made the other 2 this mor
=ning, one of the 2 women that
got maried at Fort Alexander
had fits I gave her sum peper
=ment and had her sister to
rub her which brought her
too. she had eat to mutch
pased through an narrow arm
of the river. pased the Grand
raped and camped about 3
miles above, we had 13 Coneus
to camp with us. slept on sum
flat rocks.
9th. Breckfasted at the Barriere por
=tage arived at the slave falls, 3 offeser
=s Ca~ Moodey Mr. Brown and Mr. Con
=suble from R. River pased us in a
conew bound for Canada dined with
them. Mrs. Me Kinsey and dugbter
Camped
here with us; Our Men refused to
go on if they did not get liquer had
to promus to give them sum at
Rat Portage.
1Olli. A thick fog this morning could not
prosede untill6. Dc Breckfasted at the
Roches Brules whare Mrs. McKinsey
left us for
Rat Portage. pased the aux Chene and
the
Point of Woods and camped about 4
miles above
11th. Made arley start and breckfasted
at Chute a Jocka the provisions getting
the
scarce Caneus are leveing the Winapeg
on eatch side
for a long distance down the river is all
small lakes whare the Indians gether
thare
Wild Rise they expect that it will
fale this year from the water haveing
fallen more then ushul we camped
at below the Grand de Equear.
* 12th. Breckfasted at the Grand de
Equsar and Encamped at the White
Mud. heavy ranee
* 13th. Carred the boats and cargo
a cross and Breckfasted at the Yallo
Mud and dined at the Grand Decharge
incamped at the fushery we
had to muve our incampment
on a count of the amence num
berof Ants.
MlImbarked at 3 and arived
at Rat portage at II O.c
the princapale fude of the Indians here
is wild rise and fish stirgun and
white fish in summar, in winter
rabbets.
16th. left Rat portage at2 P.M
in a small conew with M McKinsey
to catch the boats that proseded me
to the portage. here we left River Win
=apeg and entred the Lake of the Woods
camped
on~ island
17m. pased through a grate quunteys
[The following nine lines appear upside
down at the bottom of this page.
Presumably the asterisk here
corresponds with that appearing at the
entry for the 12th (August). ]
* Pased to day a Catholick Mishion.
Wabes-a
-mong the White Dog astubleshed by
Mr. Belcour. and abandoned last year
this is the onley spot of land fit for
Cultavation between Fort Alaxander
and Rat portage and this not more
then a half mile square the Cuntrey
is all barren and rockey. Indians
cannot live by Cultavition there
of islands not one in 50 but is
rockie and barran. saw 2 small
Islands with about 5 akers of Com
growing on them camped on an
Island above the little portage
18UL Hed wind ware visited
by a large partey of Indians. had to
remane
till 4 P.M. camped about 6 Miles.
1¢I:l Wind bound untill5 P.M. made a
mufe of a few miles. thare is an Island
Called garden Island sum distance west
of our
Crack farm the Indians cultuvating corn
and potatos on it. it is about 6 miles
long and 4 brode.
20111.
made an arlie start with a fare
wind which carried us into the mouth
of the River Ie Pluie. we found sum Ind
ians here the had a grate quantatei of
the stone and sand berries. the latter
large as acherrie and blue black. Cam
= ped 4 miles up the River, and found
[The following five lines appear upside
down at the bottom of this page.
Presumably the asterisk here
corresponds to that appearing at the
entry for the 13th (August). ]
* IJth. we reseved the Cheif of Rat po
= tage on board while his 2 wifes
paddeled a caneu alongside he
felt rather proud of sitting with 2
white Chiefs we tuck him to Rat portage
the moscitois in mireuds.
21 s.t I never saw such water
dogs as our men. they never
embarked when traking riv
= ers but plungd in and swam
a cross draging the boat after them
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