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the South Saskatchewan in 1751, Hendry should have heard nothing 
of it when he visited the Blackfeet three years later, and passed, as far 
as one can judge, within fifty miles of the place where Fort La Jonquiére 
is said to have been built, just three years before. On the whole, while 
it seems certain that Fort La Jonquière was actually built, at some point 
on the upper waters of the Saskatchewan, there is no very convincing 
proof available in favour of either branch. Until some reasonably con- 
clusive evidence is produced, one may be permitted to keep an open 
mind, and let the advocates of either branch fight it out among them- 
selves. 
One word in conclusion as to Hendry’s earlier history. All that 
we know is contained in a couple of notes, by Andrew Graham, appended 
to the narrative. “This Anthony Hendey,” he says, “ was born in the 
Island of Wight and was in the year 1748 outlawed for smuggling, and 
in 1750 entered into the Company’s Service, the Directors not knowing 
that he was under sentence of outlawry. This person, whom I knew 
well, was Bold, enterprising, and voluntarily offered his service to go 
inland with the natives and explore the country, and to endeavour to 
draw down the different tribes to the Factory. Before this time none 
of the servants at the Factories had ventured to winter with the natives. 
The accounts of horsemen being inland were not credited. He, Hendey, 
was misrepresented by those in the Bay who were not acting a just part 
to the Company, and he perceiving not likely to meet with promotion 
he had so deservedly merited, quitted the Company’s service. Which 
made one of the directors observe afterwards, ‘ That a valuable servant 
oftentimes was not known until lost.” * In another note Graham says: 
“T knew this man; he was a bold and good servant and was drove from 
the Company’s service by the ships gentry because he would not buy 
slops and brandy from them. He was the first person who ventured 
inland. I was then writer at York Fort.” 
