Volume 1

STINKING RIVER. 55
I now embarked and pushed on after my canoes. The
Indians advised me to be on my guard against the Sioux,
who they said we had every reason to suppose would fall
upon us before many days, as they had been at war during
the past summer on the upper part of this river, and had
found the vestiges of a Sioux camp. They were certainly
in a state of great alarm when we arrived at the Forks, and
had even made a sort of intrenchment by digging deep
holes in the ground several yards long for the security of
their women and children, and for their own defense in case
of attack. We soon overtook my canoes, which seemed in
no hurry to push on alone, having been warned of danger
by Indians.
The current is not very strong. The course of the river
is very winding, with deep water and not a stone to be seen.
At two o'clock my canoe ran on a stump, and broke a hole in
her. We put ashore and repaired. Meanwhile the Indians
passed on; at three o'clock we followed, and found them all
camped at the entrance of Riviere la Sale.^' This small
also found as Naubunaijam ; killed by Sioux early in 1806. No. 24 is the name
of one of the most celebrated Ojibway chiefs who ever lived (see Pike, ed,
1895, p. 169). No. 26 is also Waiquetoe. No. 31 is also Ondoinoiache and
Ondoiworache ;
killed by Sioux, Nov., 1803. No. 35 is probably also Cautoquoince.
No. 36 is also spelled Nanaudaya, Nanauduge, Manaundea.
No. 38 was brother of Charlo. No. 39 is also Picoutiss. No. 40 is elsewhere
Maimiutch, Maiminch, Maimunch, etc. No. 41 died Jan. 15th, 1801.
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Henry's R. la Sale or Sale r. is still known by the same or a similar name,
but oftener now called Stinking r., as it has been at times for at least 75 years.
The F. word is sale, foul, filthy—not saU, salty ; nor saule, willow ; nor sable,
sand ; nor salle, hall ; nor yet La Salle, a person's name—though I have found
all these forms. Thompson, 1798, calls it Salt or Bad Water r. Another rendering
isWenagomo or Muddy r. , in Keating's Long, II. 1824, p. 80. The stream
heads not far from the Assiniboine, in the country S. of Portage la Prairie,
runs on an average course about E. S. E. into Tp. 8, R. i, E. of the prina
merid., a few miles below Blythfield, and there turns N. N. E. to meander into
the Red r. at St. Norbert, about 10 m. S. of Winnipeg. It is crossed by
the Pembina branch of the C. P. Ry. at or near La Salle, and higher up, at
or near Starbuck, by the S.
W. branch of the same, while the N. P. and Mani-
The region
toba R. R. runs by some of its upper reaches to Portage la Prairie.
drained by this stream lies entirely between Scratching r. on the S. and the
Assiniboine on the N.