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day he reached the Saskatchewan. When he comes to the Waskesew 
the case is even worse. In a foot-note Andrew Graham informs us that 
“ Keskatchew and Waskesew River is all one river, and is called by the 
French Christianaux River, from the lake of that name.” Undoubt- 
edly the Red Deer and the Saskatchewan are all one river, but Hendry 
has already crossed the South Saskatchewan and seen the North Saskat- 
chewan. Why did he not name them Keskatchew or Waskesew? Again, 
here is the old French name Christianaux applied to the Saskatchewan, 
and to Lake Winnipeg. Hendry crossed a lake which he names Chris- 
tianaux, and which by no possible manipulation of his distances can 
be made to fit Lake Winnipeg. It is morally certain that he never 
saw Lake Winnipeg on either his outward or return journey. One is 
reduced to the conclusion that either he or Graham confused the large 
lake which he crossed, and which he named Christianaux, with Lake 
Winnipeg. 
Three days after crossing the Red Deer, Hendry arrived at a large 
camp of Archithinue Indians. The name occurs repeatedly in his nar- 
rative, and one of the chief objects of his journey seems to have been to 
get in touch with this tribe and induce them to bring furs down 
to York Factory. It would be impossible to identify the tribe with 
any degree of certainty were it not that Cocking supplies the key. 
He, too, visited the Archithinues, and in his Journal, under date of 
December 1st, 1772, he says; “ This tribe is named Powestic-Athinue- 
wuck (1.e.) Water-fall Indians. There are four Tribes or Nations 
more, which are all Equestrian Indians, viz.: Mithco-Athinuwuck or 
Bloody Indians, Koskitow-Wathesitock or Blackfooted Indians, Pego- 
now or Muddy-water Indians, and Sassewuck or Woody Country In- 
dians.” 1 The Archithinue Indians whom Hendry visited, and of whom 
he gives an exceedingly interesting account, were, therefore, Blackfeet. 
The fact that, although he went among them with no white companion, 
he was well received, hospitably entertained, and permitted to spend the 
winter in the Blackfeet country without molestation, is well worth 
noting, in view of the fact that the later history of the tribe is one 
long story of fierce hostility to the white men. One is tempted to be- 
lieve that the white man must himself have been largely responsible for 
such a change of front on the part of the Blackfeet. 
Hendry’s description of the manners and customs of this tribe, as 
he found them in 1754, may very well be supplemented by the follow- 
ing particulars taken from Cocking’s journal: “In all their actions,” 

1See also Franklin’s “ Polar Sea,’ I, 169, as to the divisions and names of 
the Blackfeet confederacy. 
