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dark vices of savage life, ferocious cruelty, resent- 

 ment, and revenge in the Indian, with the gentle 

 Esquimaux: — 



" When viewed more nearly in their domestic relations, 

 the comparison will, I believe, be still more in their favour. 

 It is here as a social being, as a husband and the father of 

 a family, promoting within his own little sphere the benefit 

 of that community in which Providence has cast his lot, that 

 the moral character x)f a savage is truly to be sought : and 

 who can turn without horror, from the Esquimaux peaceably 

 seated after a day of honest labour with his wife and chil- 

 dren in their snow-built hut, to the self-willed and vindictive 

 Indian, wantonly plunging his dagger into the bosom of the 

 helpless woman whom nature bids him cherish and protect ?" 



Mr. Drummond is the only one of the party that 

 now remains to be noticed. From Cumberland 

 House he accompanied the Company's boats with 

 a brigade of traders for the Columbia, determined 

 to proceed with them as far as the Rocky Moun- 

 tains. To Carlton House is two hundred and sixty 

 miles. Leaving this, on the 1st of September, they 

 proceeded to Edmonton, which is about four hundred 

 miles, and reached it on the 20th of that month. 

 One hundred miles further brought them to Assina- 

 boin on the Red Deer River. From hence they 

 proceeded up this river to the mountains ; but the 

 canoe being much lumbered, it was necessary that 

 some of the party should travel by land ; " and of 

 that number," says Mr. Drummond, " I volunteered 

 to be one." A heavy fall of snow rendered the 



