Volume 1

274 ARRIVALS—NEWS OF LIEUTENANT PIKE.
particulars.'" Pishawbey " passed on his way to Otter Tail
lake. ijth. Messrs. Chaboillez and A. McGillis arrived
from Fort Dauphin, and Messrs. Wilkie and Dorion from
Portage la Prairie. 26th. The gentlemen off for their
posts. 22d {sic]. Allard '^ and Bottineau returned with
their stolen horses, after a narrow escape from being killed
by the Crees.
Mar. jd. My blacksmith's woman ran away with
Charlo." 8th. Her ladyship very ill, etc. J2th. White
Loon, a Cree boy, died of consumption, aged about 15 years.
Mar. ijth. Roille'* and Descarrie [Descarreau of May
18, 1804] arrived from Leech lake, with letters from Mr.
Hugh McGillis, informing us that a party of American
soldiers had arrived at his place in February last, commanded
by Lieut. [Zebulon Montgomery] Pike ;
their
headquarters were [not] at L'Aile du Corbeau [Crow Wing
river], and their errand was to oblige us to pay the usual
duties at Mackinac for trading in American territories.
lyth. All my people laid up snow-blind, with sore eyes,
occasioned by the continual storms and drifts. 2^th. Astonishing
numbers of chicken-hawks flying from S. to N.,
very high in the air. Jist. The Indians saw three fallow
deer [Carmcus virginianus], and killed one—the first of
the kind ever seen in this quarter.
'"
For all these particulars, see Pike, ed. 1895, p. 152 and following. Lieut.
Pike and Private Miller reached Hugh McGillis' N. W. Co. house on Leech 1.
at lo p. m., Saturday, Feb. ist, 1806, and the rest of the party about 4 p. m.,
Feb. 6th.
" Again an identification to be made with Tanner, who has much to say of
" Pe-shau-ba, who was chief of the band of Ottowwaws, to which I belonged,'*
p. 139. This Peshauba was one of the war party which left Pembina Aug.
27th, 1805, to avenge the stroke the Sioux had made.
" Probably Ambrose Allard, listed as a voyageur N. W. Co., Lower Red r.,
after the fusion of 1804 ; but at the same time there was a Pierre Allard on
Lake Winnipeg.
'^
So copy : but
the only Charlo to whom we have hitherto been introduced
was dying on p. 161, dead on p. 167, and duly lamented on p. 168.
'"This is the man Pike names " Reale" at date of Feb. 2ist, 1806, in his
itinerary, p. 174 of the ed. of 1895 :
see also there, p. 928.