Volume 1

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266 ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE SEASON.
neau/ and wife. Fire in the plains in every direction ;
burned our horses* feet passing through the smoldering turf.
Slept at Beaulieu's* tent on Sale river, jd. Set off;
camped at the foot of the traverse on this river. Awoke
about 4 a. m. next morning and found six inches of snow
on our blankets. We lay in the open plain, exposed to the
storm, which continued with great violence from the N. E.
At daybreak we took shelter in the woods along the river,
and made a cabin with elm bark ; not a mouthful to eat.
On the 5th the storm had abated, but left nearly a foot of
snow on the ground, with a strong crust, and made it tedious
traveling for our horses. However, I set out. Killed two
buffaloes, and at sunset overtook my brigade at Riviere aux
Marais ;
they were starving with cold and hunger.
Oct. 6th. We all arrived at Panbian river, where we
found that the H. B. people were building, and about 80
Indians anxiously awaiting my arrival, in expectation of
getting as much rum as usual ; but they were mistaken. I
immediately drew up an agreement with Mr. Miller ; we
divided our Indians, I taking good care to keep the best
hunters for myself, and settled matters so as to keep them
from cheating us. I turned Tabashaw over to my neighbor,
and positively refused to have anything more to do with
him. On the 7th Indians began to decamp, finding it was
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So copy—no further record found.
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Beaulieu is a very old name in these annals. A half-breed family of that
name was found on Slave r. when the N. W. Co. first reached it, in or about
1778, showing prior presence of the French so far as this. Fran9ois Beaulieu,
one of that family, born in the region, was one of the six voyageurs who started
with (Sir) A. McKenzie for the Pacific May gth, 1793, from the place where the
party had wintered on Peace r, ;
he was baptized by Mgr. Tache in 1848, then
supposed to be over 70 years old, and died Nov., 1872, almost a centenarian.
The Beaulieu of the text is Joseph, listed as voyageur contre-maitre N. W. Co.,
Lower Red r., 1804.—Basile Beaulieu, from Montreal, was a voyageur N. W.
Co. in 1804-05, at Lac de Flambeau (Torch 1.), Minn.—One Beaulieu, given
also as Bolieu, and never with Christian name, was one of three men under Mr.
Quesnel at the Rocky Mountain house on the Saskatch. r. when Thompson
arrived there, Oct. nth, 1806 ;
he went with Thompson into the Rocky mts.,
where we hear of him at various points, 1 807-11.