Volume 1

NEW CARTS—BLOODSHED—LE BCEUF. 205
port the property. We have enough for all purposes, and
a new sort of cart which facilitates transportation, hauling
home meat, etc. They are about four feet high and
perfectly straight ; the spokes are perpendicular, without
the least bending outward [" dishing "], and only four to
each wheel. These carts carry about five pieces, and are
drawn by one horse.
Sept. 2§th.
Indians decamping to follow their traders to
the outposts, and those who intend to remain about this
My man
place are taking debts and preparing, to decamp.
out hunting ; buffalo in abundance. 28tJi. One of my
young men, S. Purie \sic—qu : Jean Baptiste St. Pierre?]
shot two cows dead, with one ball.
Oct. §th. Wayquatchewine,* in a drinking match, stabbed
another Indian on the shoulder blade, but the knife was
arrested by the bone, and the wound was not mortal. At
the same time he stabbed a woman in the breast ; it appears
to be an ugly wound, but not very deep, as the knife went
in slanting and made a great gash. /J///. Indians going
off and returning to plague us for liquor. The X.Y. arrived
with two canoes. Duford [note *, p. 187] followed Langlois
to Red Lake river ;
high water over the plains prevented
their reaching Red lake.
They built at Terre Blanche.'
Nov. 2d. Sent trains for meat. Buffalo in abundance.
I hired Le Boeuf as hunter [note "'% p. 182]. This man is
supposed to be the best among the Saulteurs for buffalo
and other strong, wild animals ; his name is derived from
his superior capacities in hunting the buffalo. He has
often, even in seasons when there is no snow, approached
a herd, and then, when on his firing they ran off, chased
them on foot for a long distance, loading and firing rapidly,
' Name not in the list, p. 53
: compare the first element of the word with Wayquetoe,
No. 26, and the balance with Saskatchewan, name of the river.
"
This French phrase is the origin of modern White Earth as name of the
large Indian reservation in
Minnesota, and of a lake and a river in that reservation,
tributary to Wild Rice r. We are left in doubt of 'the exact location of
Langlois' outpost, but it was probably within the limits of the present reservation,
and perhaps on Wild Rice or White Earth r.