Volume 1

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FORT WILLIAM
HENRY'S RETURNS. 221
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RETURNS OF LOWER RED RIVER DEPARTMENT,
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1801 Beavers, weight, 2,825 lbs
152 Black Bears
42 Brown Bears
I Grizzly Bear
801 Wolves
190 Foxes
24 Kitts
127 Raccoons
496 Fishers
172 Otters
722 Martens
122 Minks
10 Wolverenes
194 Lynxes
139 Dressed Moose and Biches
129 Shaved and Parchment Skins
144 Muskrats
4 Buffalo Robes
9 Badgers
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94 Packs of 90 lbs. each ,
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95 Bags of Pemmican of 90 lbs. each
10 Kegs of Sugar
12 Kegs of Grease ,
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notes there were 1,000 laboring men in July of that year. For the condition
of things in 1814, see for example Franchere, orig. F. ed. p. 267 ;
E. trans.,
p. 359. When Long was there, Sept., 1823, it was becoming ruinous; Mr.
Roderic McKenzie was superintendent, and Mr. Henry (qu.: Robert or
William?) was with him : so Keating, II. 1824, p. 174. The romance of this
great rendezvous of the Northmen is celebrated in Irving's Astoria, with that
fine penman's wonted felicity.
23 We hear of the Invincible till lost Nov. 13, 1816. The Sloop Otter, Capt.
Bennett, was plying on Lake Superior in 1798.
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Of the persons named in this list, those on a line with Henry had charge
of the different outposts in his department : Edward Harrison, John McDonnell,
junior, Louis Dorion, Joseph St. Germain, Augustin Cadotte, Michel
Langlois, John Cameron. The names in the next line are those of the clerks
or assistants in four instances.—We have already noted John Crebassa and
J. Duford.—Lajeunesse is in due form ; but the name does not occur in Masson,
and I have no mem. of any such person, excepting one Lajeunesse whom