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°' It is evident that they did not pay a second visit to the Beef Sioux 

 in their country. Radisson mentions the Assiniboines, but does not pretend 

 to have seen them; consequently they did not go up Pigeon River nor the 

 Kaministiquia (Riviere Errante). 



" Winter of 1662-3, after returning from James Bay. 



" Ashland, Oak Point. 



" As usual the Indians of Chagouamigon wished to keep the trade 

 tliemselves. They were afraid that the Christines would become direct 

 customers of the French. It is to be observed that Chouart and Radisson 

 were sharp and positive in their answers to them, and this is because they 

 knew that these people were apt to become insolent if treated mildly. Such 

 was also the doctrine of Nicholas Perrot. 



"^ The Elders of the Beef Sioux. 



°* Winnipeg? 



°° The year before some 100 Iroquois had been destroyed by the Sauteurs 

 on Lake Superior, the southeast shore. 



*° This passage is not in the proper place. (See Royal Society, 1903, 

 Section 1, p. 39-40). 



" Avaugour, who had succeeded Argenson, was replaced by Mésy, 15th 

 September, 1663. Pierre Boucher was Governor of Three Rivers. 



"* Most likely "quatre mille livres," four thousand francs, equivalent 

 to £160. 



^^ Therefore the furs of our own two men amounted to 70,000 francs, on 

 which sum 24,000 francs went to the administration of the colony, according 

 to law. Money in those days represented five times more value than at 

 present. Convert the franc of twenty sous each into one dollar to have a 

 fair calculation. 



'" One pistol was worth ten francs then. 



