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120 BACK TO PARK RIVER POST.
toward the Ribbone lakes, which makes me believe my
messenger will find the Indians there.
Oct. ijtJi. I found it necessary to alter the arrangement
of the people at the hills. None would remain under the
command of Lagasse, nor do I think him a fit person to
have property in charge. I therefore sent Hamel to take
charge, desiring Lagass6 to return to this place. I was also
obliged to leave here the two men who came with me to
re-enforce the mountain post to which I sent them with
Hamel. They took their baggage and some goods on their
backs. Having no horses, I dispatched two men with gum,
bark, and wattap, to repair and bring down the canoe we
had abandoned at Two Rivers. The Indians decamped,
saying they were going to hunt beaver on Two Rivers. But
they will soon be at my fort, as they no longer apprehend
danger.
Oct. i6th. At nine o'clock I mounted and set off alone
on my return. At Panbian river I killed a fat swan ;
and
opposite Fort des Trembles," two bulls. It began to snow
and blow hard from the N. At three o'clock I reached
Two Rivers, where my two men had only just finished
repairing the canoe. The snowstorm increasing, I determined
to stop for the night. We accordingly carried our
canoe into the woods, made a rousing fire, and took shelter
under her, where we were perfectly comfortable, though it
snowed all night.
Oct. ijth. The storm had abated, but it was very
cold, the ground deep with snow, and the weather hazy,
with a thick frimas. The men proposed to embark. I
mounted, and proceeded alone ; saw
a few buffalo, and red
deer in abundance. At two o'clock I reached my fort,
" Unidentified ; there was no fort in existence on the E. side of Red r. in that
vicinity. Chaboillez's house had been called Fort Paubna ;
and unless Fort
des Trembles was another name of it, Henry probably refers to the site of
Grant's house : see note ', p. 80. Tremble is good French for the aspen, as
tremblaie is for aspen-grove ; but either of these words appears oftener in
Canadian records as tremblier : see note ^*, p. 49.