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422 SAND HILL RIVER OUTBOST—BEARS.
Sept. i^th. I sent a boat above, with directions to build
at Sandy Hiir° river, where most of the Indians proposed
to winter, but made no other outposts.
RETURNS OF LOWER RED RIVER DEPARTMENT, 1806-07.
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1,184 Beavers, weighing 1750 lbs
213 Black bears
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51 Brown bears
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I Grizzly bear
1,207 Martens
126 Minks
544 Muskrats
I ig Otters
238 Fishers
420 Wolves
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216 Dressed biche skins
30 Dressed red deer skins
53 Parchment biche skins
32 Fallow deer skins
iig Red foxes
7 Cross foxes ,
4 Silver foxes
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8 Wolverenes
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1 Muskrat robe
21 Ermines
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56s
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77 Packs of 85 lbs. each
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116 Bags of pemmican of 85 lbs. each
24 Kegs of grease
II Kegs of sugar
4 Kegs of gum
5 Kegs of beef
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2 Kegs of tongue
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Gain, ;^I98 4J. 10^., Halifax Cy.
Everything went on as usual during the winter,
Buffalo
abounded, and the Indians made tolerably good hunts,
considering the exhausted state of this small department.
Bears were uncommonly numerous in the Hair hills, owing
perhaps to the quantity of water on the lowlands, which
obliged them to resort to the rising grounds for winter quar-
'*Or Sand Hill r.—Riviere aux Buttes de Sable of Nov. loth, 1800 :
141, note '".
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