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28. Friday. Paddled up Apet-Sepee to Pine Reach,’ and put up 
for the might. 
29. Saturday. Took my departure from Pine-Reach, and paddled 
up Apet-Sepee 25 miles N.W.; passed four large falls, the river about 
16 poles wide, the banks high, and tall woods. 
30. Sunday. Took my departure from inclosed fall,? and paddled 
28 miles N.W.b.N. & N.W.; the lands and woods as yesterday; passed 
seventeen places where the water was so shoal as to be under the neces- 
sity to carry our goods and canoes over. 
July 1. Monday. Took my departure from Musketo-point, and 
paddled seventeen miles N.W. A heavy rain towards noon with thunder 
and lightning. The lands high, rocky with shrubby woods. Very shal- 
low water with stones, which obliged us to carry our canoes and goods 
in several places.ÿ 
2. Tuesday. Took my departure from Stony-Banks, and paddled 
23 miles N.W. The river narrow and full of large stones. The banks 

+A local name that has not survived. Pine grows all along this por- 
tion of the Hayes. In a foot-note to the original journal, Andrew Graham 
says: ‘From York Fort to Pine Reach sixty measured: miles,’ which fixes 
the position of Pine Reach with at least approximate accuracy. Graham 
was a writer at York Factory at the time of Hendry’s journey, and after- 
ward became factor at the same place. 
? Probably The Rock, a well-known point on the Hayes route. In Archi- 
bald McDonald’s Journal of a Canoe Voyage from Hudson’s Bay to the 
Pacific, 1828, with Sir George Simpson, they left York Factory on July 12, 
and arrived at The Rock on the 14th. This was about half the time taken 
by Hendry, but each of Sir George Simpson’s “light canoes” was manned 
by nine picked men, and he had the reputation throughout the west of 
travelling at a furious pace. In 1828 the Hudson’s Bay Company had a 
small trading post at The Rock. McDonald says, “Had a peep at the 
Rock, an old establishment with its gardens.” Malcolm McLeod, in a note 
to McDonald’s Journal, says of The Rock: “There are a number of portages 
in pretty close succession a little above this, if I remember aright, and at 
one of them the boats also have to be hauled over. There is a regular 
roadway for the purpose, with round sticks a few feet apart, for rolling the 
boats on. A couple of crews can haul over one of them in a trice.” 
8 At or near present Mossy Portage. Sir John Franklin mentions this 
portage in the narrative of his first overland expedition, 1819-22, and says 
that the canoes were carried through a deep bog for a quarter of a mile. 
“The river swells out,’ he says, “above this portage, to the breadth of 
several miles, and as the islands are numerous there are a great variety of 
channels.” Every traveller who has gone over the Hayes route speaks 
feclingly of the difficulties of navigation below Swampy lake. Mossy portage 
is but one of many on this portion of the river. Cocking’s Journal at this 
pcint is nothing much more than a dull repetition of the phrase, ‘“ paddled, 
dragged, and carried the canoes and goods most part of this day.” 
