JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE THROUGH THE
t'Ley had been deprived fince the beginning o f May ; as it is a practice
throughout the North-Weft, neither to fell or give f„amy rum to>
the native during iteiummer. There was at thk>time. only one chfef
with his people, the other .two -being, hourly expe&ed with their bands ;
and on the 21ft and 22d they 'ah: arrived except the. war chief and
fifteen men. As they very foon expreffed their defire of the expeft-
ed regale, I called them together, to the number of .forty-two hunters,
of men capable of bearing arms, to offerdome advfee, which/wonid
be equally advantageous to--them and to-us, and Lftrengthenedmy
admonition with a nine gallon calk of reduced -rum and a quantity of
tobacco. At the fame timed ohferved, that as I fhoiddaot often fifit
them, i had inftaaced a greater. ;degre© o f hberalky than they , had heea.
accullomed to.
The number of people belonging to this- eflablifiosment amounts to about:
three hundred, of which, ftxty are hunters;. Although they appear from
their language to be o f the fame flock as the Ghepewyansythey. differ
from them in. appearance, manners, and cuftoms, as they ha«e adopted
thole o f thei^ former enemies, the Knifteneaux: they fpeak-their Ian-,
guage, as. welt as cut their- hair, paint, and eteefsr like them, and psffefs-
their immoderate bandnefe for liquon and tobaccos. This description,
however, can he applied only , to the men, as the women are lefs<
adorned even than thofe of the Chepewyan tribes.. We could not oh*
ferve, without fome degree of furprize, the contrail between the neat and
decern: appearance of the- men* and the- nafline-fs o f the- Womerv l am
difpofed, however, to think that this ciroumflance is generally ©wing to;
the extreme fubmiffion and abatement of the latter :■ for d obffcpved, that}
NORTH-WEST CONTINENT' O f AMÊR-fGA,
One of the chiefs' allowed two of his/ wives m 1 iMiSYïï’ 1 and fa-m'iliarit^
than were accorded* to< the others* as'Wfeff $5 à fSOfë bé^ômih^ ektërïor,
and. their appeàr4 nee mm prèporfionably" pleàteg. Î ffikl-l, howfeyër'ÿ
take a fntule\opp®itu>mity uo-fpealSmoi-ef)at- lafgé oh this; fa'bjë'éL *
- There: were frequent- efiaageff of thé weather it# thé- dOurfe tif the’
daypSKid in ftoz^ratbëtrhard-inttlie* night, The- thteki^fs df t'Hfe'rieif-iif
the"morning was:afuffiéiëSeisèiâjSê-for- me: lié proceed'.- Ie accordingly
g aw the-natWès!. fiach good courifel? as Might- infliiMcd' tlië-ir Behaviour,-
commanicatéd; nlyr directions* to Mr, Findlay for hrs* future condufly and*
teofcnîyfeat%,ufld@nlhfdM^®li-kPOpMuflcétî^@n*thê1m0fhiri^ctfffié^^h-
Bhad’ a&eadÿ <hipatchodMyikhSed?ea n&isfi’Wi- da^S-bë fôïëj With di¥ëêliëhs;
torébin*nuëthehwpr^rêfs'WithddkWai^gfëfrMÉF Offl: êêirffe W-ÉsrSdhft“'
Sbuth-Eaft: oné mile and/ an half, Sdüth three"quartels'; Eaft févèn milès--
and; an half, veering/ gradually to the Welt four miles' and an halfi-
iSoUth-Eaft' by South tlir'e-e' milesj South-Ball tin ee1 ’Miles3' afed; an1 half,
Eafl/-South-Eafb to Long Point three' milesj- South-'Well- one mile; and:
à quarter, -Eafl by- North four mites' and ■ thr'ee/ qua'rters j Well throesmiles
and an• half,-Well-South-Wefc one Mile,-Eafl by South five' miles and
and an halfl South'- three" miles and three ' qu-aî fei-sl So u th-E aft“ By Sou ill
three; miles;.Eaft-South-Eaft"three miles,' Eaft-North-Eaft one 111 ih '' vJfFn
there was'a liter/ that flowed in Oti the right, Eafl two-miles' and an half.-
Eaft-S"outli-Eaffi half a mild, South-Ea'ft by South)feven• miles and'’an
Half,-South -two unites, S oM-f S b u t H - ETa ft thi e'e milés' ahd aMhalf; iiiMke
courfe/. o f which wé paffed/- an iflaM South by-Weft; where a rivulet
flowed in on the right, one mile, Eaft one mile and an half, - SSuth- five
miles, South-Eaft by South four miles and an half, - South-Weft one
mile