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NELSON—BETHUNE— CALDWELL.
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RETURNS OF LOWER RED RIVER DEPARTMENT,
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2,736 Beavers, 4,000 lbs
187 Black bears
6s Brown do
10 Grizzly do
6go Wolves
188 Foxes, red, silver, and crossed.
57 Kitts
95 Raccoons
267 Fishers
293 Otters
804 Martens
376 Minks
17 Wolverenes
38 Lynxes
1 18 Dressed moose and biche
336 Shaved parchment do
6,712 Muskrats
40 Buffalo robes
10 Badgers
294
59
22
63
6
14
84
45
136
19
6
8
79
36
3,800
3
648
13
14
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44
72
188
92
3
II
68
65
1,583
184
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3
20
26
4
21
25
100
350
24
16
18
52
3S
200
146
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3
9
22
700
150
12
4
31
267
34
3
I
40
138
25
8
4
251
56
26
12
24
8
6
14
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4
25
70
14
17
10
160
18
2
4
246
91
3'
15
14
5
4
2
3
200
2
829
30
4
2
102
31
36
25
64
3
44
5
II
I
95
177
144 Packs of go lbs each
23
26
16
14
26
125 Bags of pemmican, go lbs. each
14 Kegs of beef
10 " tongue
ID " sugar
7 " grease
3 " gum
57
24
44
14
10
10
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'" The names in this table have all been acccounted for, except : Geo.
Nelson
is listed as a voyageur N. W. Co., Lake Winnipeg, 1804, but seems to have
been promoted that year, as we find him in the capacity of clerk this season of
1804-05. The same was in charge of the N. W. Co. house on Moose 1., near
Cumberland House, in Sept., 18 19, when he went to the relief of poor Benjamin
Frobisher, whose tragic end was one of the most shocking in all the annals
of the fur-trade : see the account of his sufferings elsewhere in my notes.—The
only Bethune of whom I have a mem. is Angus, of the N. W. Co., who reached
Astoria with J. G. McTavish and others in Sept., 1813.— James Caldwell, clerk
N. W. Co., went to the Mandans with Charles McKenzie from the Assiniboine,
starting June 4th, 1806, and we shall find him there in due course, when Henry
meets him at Le Borgne's village, July 2ist, 1806.