[BURPEE] YORK FACTORY TO THE BLACKFEET COUNTRY 327 
did the Natives. Two miles farther, we met with berries the size of 
black currants and the finest I ever eat. I, as also the Natives, are 
fatigued with our two days’ journies, which we are obliged to perform 
to come up to where provisions are to be had. 
30. Tuesday. Travelled 16 miles S.W. level land, cherry trees, 
and fields of tares are full and ripe as any in England. Indians killed 
two Moose. 
31. Wednesday. Travelled 13 Miles W.S.W. Level lands and 
burnt woods; and there are nothing but stagnated water to drink. 
Came to two tents of Asinepoet Indians.! Ul smoaked with them, and 
talked with them to go down with me to York Fort in the summer, but 
they answered, “ We are conveniently supplied from the Pagua-Mista- 
gushewuck Whiskeheginish.” That is, the Frenchman’s House of 
Trade.? 
August 1. Thursday. Travelled 12 miles 8.W.b.S., fine level land 
and tall woods; passed three small creeks of sweet water. The Indians 
killed two moose; I am. now entering a pleasant and plentiful country. 
2. Friday. Travelled 10 miles S.W.b.S. Hills and Dales with 
little woods. Indians killed 6 Waskesew. 
3. Saturday. Travelled 10 miles S.W.b.S. Level land with cherry 
trees, on which are plenty of fruit, plenty of Filberts. Indians killed 
2 moose. 
4. Sunday. Travelled 10 miles N.W. Land and Woods as yester- 
day. Met with 7 tents of Asinepoet Indians. I smoaked with them,— 
but have no hopes of getting them to the Fort,—as what cloth &c. they 
had were French, and, by their behaviour, T perceived they were strongly 
attached to the French interest, Indians killed 2 Moose. 

*Umfreville, in his “Present State of Hudson’s Bay,” 1790, calls them 
the Assinepoetuc or Stone Indians; in Dobb’s “Account of the Countries 
adjoining to Hudson’s Bay,” 1744, they are named Assinibouels. Sir John 
Richardson gives the Cree name as Asseeneepoytuck, or Stone Indians. 
There are many other variants of the name in early narratives and journals. 
The tribe was finally known as the Assiniboines. According to Franklin 
the Assiniboines called themselves Hascab. Originally they formed part 
of the Sioux family, but separated as a result of some tribal quarrel and 
wandered north through the Red River country to the great plains south of 
the Saskatchewan. Alexander Henry, the Younger, gives an interesting 
account of the tribe in his Journal (pp. 516 et seq.); and reference may be 
made to the “Travels and Adventures” of the older Henry, as well as to 
Dr. James Bain’s foot-note on p. 277. See also John McDonnell’s Narrative, 
1793-97, in Masson’s “ Bourgeois de la Compagnie du Nord-Ouest,” I, 278-9. 
*Hendry elsewhere bears unwilling testimony to the remarkable hold 
obtained by the French traders upon the western Indians. 
