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16. Monday. Travelled 5 Miles West, then came to a small river 
called Chacutenah.t It is full of large stones & weeds; small Hazle, 
Birch & Poplar trees, growing on the sides of it. Buffalo very numerous. 
Indians killed a great many, only taking out their tongues, and some 
other choice pieces; leaving the remainder for the Wolves, &e. 
17. Tuesday. Indians hunting. Women drying Meat. Two 
Young Men miserably tore by a Grizzle Bear * whom they had wounded. 
One may recover but the other never can; for his arm is almost tore 
from his body, one eye is quite out, and his entrails are hanging from 
his body. 
18. Wednesday. Travelled none. One Indian dead and the other 
in a weak condition. ‘Two Asinepoet Natives came to us and informed 
us the Archithinue Natives had killed and scalped 6 Indians, and that 
there were a great many nigh us. 
19. Thursday. Travelled ? Miles N.W. Level land and ledges 
of burnt woods. Several ponds of sweet water: left one family to take 
care of the wounded man. 
20. Friday. Travelled 6 Miles S.W. then came to 7 tents of Asine- 
poet Natives. I smoked with them and bought a horse from them for 
a gun, to carry my provisions &e. At night they let the Horses graze 
with their feet fettered.* 

1Sounding Creek, between 110° and 111° W. long. In Lieut. Chappell’s 
Vocabulary of the Cree or Knisteneaux Indians (“ Narrative of a Voyage to 
Hudson’s Bay,” 257) Chah-kiet-tin-now is defined as A hill, rising ground; 
and in the vocabulary in Henry the Younger’s Journal (535), hill is given as 
Tchacutinnow. Neutral Hills, between Sounding Creek and Ribstone Creek, 
may suggest the origin of Henry’s Chacutenah. 
The grizzly bear, though popularly supposed to be confined to the 
Rocky Mountains, has ranged over a much wider field. Cocking speaks of 
“sgrizzle bears of the fierce kind” east of the South Saskatchewan; Henry 
the Younger (121) says they were abundant in the Hair Hills and at Lac 
du Diable, in the Red River Valley. They are mentioned in the narrative of 
Henry Kellsey, who journeyed inland from Hudson’s Bay in 1691 or 1692; 
and Samuel Hearne found them east of the Coppermine. The ferocity of 
the species is too well known to need comment. 
’This, and the reference on the 22nd to wild horses, raises the interesting 
point—already discussed briefly in the Introduction, in connection with the 
Blackfeet—when the horse first came into’ use among the Assiniboines. 
Hendry’s journal would indicate that the horse had already become, in 1754, 
the indispensible companion of the Indian of the plains. Yet it is clear from 
La Vérendrye’s Journal of the Expedition to the Mandans (p 13, Canadian 
Archives Report, 1889) that horses were not in use among the Assiniboines 
in 1738-39, at any rate among those who inhabited the country between the 
Assiniboine and the Missouri. It would appear that the horse, introduced 
