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CHAPTER XII.
THE PEMBINA RIVER POST, CONCLUDED :
1807-08.
HUG. 31st, 1807. I arrived at Panbian river in 30 days
from Fort William, alias Kamanistiquia, leaving an
establishment at Riviere aux Morts, and gave up Portage
la Prairie to the Upper Red River department. This
season we were troubled by an augmentation of freemen
from Canada, etc. Their total numbers on this river
amounted to 45 more worthless fellows could not be
;
found in the North West. On my arrival the Indians, as
usual, were camped at the fort. My men were just finishing
our hay — 3,000 bundles, of about 15 pounds each.
Buffalo
were very numerous and near at hand.
Sept. I2th. Two H. B. Co. boats arrived from Albany
Factory ; Hugh Henry [Heney '], master. i4.tJi. I sent a
boat above, William Henry, master, with T. Veandrie, interpreter,
and seven men, to build at Grandes Fourches.
15th.
I quarreled with Tabashaw, and turned him out of the
fort. igth. One H. B. Co. bgat off for Grandes Fourches
six men and a skiff. Indians have been drinking for 1$
days, and are decamping. I employed all my men to build
a large stable, to contain 50 horses.
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Hugh Heney's name is a snare into which others have fallen besides myself.
It is sometimes found as Haney, but usually becomes Henry in MS. and thence
gets into print. Masson has Heney correctly, I. pp. 307, 308. " A Mr. Haney "
first occurs in Lewis and Clark, Dec. i6th, 1804, p. 212 of my ed. of 1893. I
there question the name, which is certainly not Haney in the Clark Codex C
132, where it stands in MS. twice Henny or Henry. In the Lewis Codex L
69, date of July ist, 1806, it stands Henry, interlined Haney; but Biddle printed
Henry, and on p. 1065 I bracketed " [Alexander] Henry," with cheerful
promptitude, thus identifying Hugh Heney with our author, who I had just
learned was at the Mandans in 1806. I had never seen Masson at that time,
or I should not have made such a blunder. My error repeats itself on p. 1192,
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