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5. Monday. Travelled 11 miles W.S.W. Level land and poor 
Woods; killed four Waskesew, or Red Deer, a stately animal, but the 
flesh coarse, and no manner equal to Moose flesh; however all is wel- 
come to us. 
6. Tuesday. Travelled 11 miles W.S.W. Level lands, and tall 
ledges of woods; crossed several small creeks of good water, which is 
acceptable; not having seen any these three days past. 
7. Wednesday. Travelled none. Indians killed 3 Waskesew and 
2 Moose. ‘a 
8. Thursday. Travelled none. All hands feasting, smoking, 
drinking, dancing and conjuring.! 
9. Friday. Level land; poplars and Willows. Passed two Salt 
Lakes, large lumps of Salt candid (sic) laying round the edges.?  In- 
dians killed 2 Moose. 
10. Saturday. Travelled 4 miles W.b.N.; then put up to feast &c. 
11. Sunday. Travelled 11 Miles S.W.b.W. Level lands, short 
grass; no woods; and no water but what is salt. 
12. Monday. Travelled 7 Miles W.S.W. Level land, with small 
black Cherry trees, yielding plenty of fruit. Nothing but salt lakes. 
13. Tuesday. Travelled 7 Miles W.S.W. Level land, short Grass, 
Dry-woods, and several salt water lakes. We are now entered Muscuty 
plains, and shall soon see plenty of Buffalo, and the Archithinue Indians * 
hunting them on Horse-back. 
14. Wednesday. Travelled none. The young Men hunting, killed 
several Moose and Waskesew; provisions plenty and good food. 

1Nearly all early travellers through Western America have had some- 
thing to say of the “ Medicine’ practices of the various tribes. Particularly 
full and valuable accounts are given in Catlin’s ‘“ North American Indians,” 
and Maximilian of Wied’s Travels, as well as in the Reports of the Bureau 
of Ethnology, Washington. 
? Hendry has now travelled about 225 miles from the French post at the 
mouth of the Pasquia, and is perhaps 70 miles east of Clark Crossing 
on the South Saskatchewan. Salt, or rather alkaline, lakes and ponds 
abound in this part of the country. Cocking describes similar lakes: “We 
pitched on the side of a lake, the water disagreeable, bitterish, salt taste; 
salt laying on the surface an inch thick (a specimen of which I have pre- 
served) ‘and the shore like rime in a frosty morning.” Dr. Robert Bell 
gays (Geol. Survey Report, 1878-79, p. 10 c.), “I collected specimens 
of the white efflorescing salt or ‘alkali’ which every traveller observes 
around many of the lakes and covering the dry beds of ponds in the region 
drained by the western branch of the Assiniboine, and found that it consists 
principally of sulphate of sodium and magnesium, together with chlorides 
of calcium and sodium.” 
* Blackfeet. See Introduction. 
