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21. Saturday. Travelled 7 Miles S.W.b.S. . Level land and Shrub- 
by woods: Indians killed 12 Waskesew and 3 Buffalo. 
22. Sunday. Travelled none. Indians hunting. Indians killed 
6 Moose. No Buffalo to be seen. Saw several Wild Horses. The Natives 
behave very kind to me, except my Guide Attickashish, who is a little 
out of humour because I would not lend him my gun: but I take no 
notice, neither do I value him. 
23. Monday. Travelled none. Young Men hunting killed 4 Moose 
& 3 Buffalo; also a large black Bear. Saw several Toads. I cannot 
describe the fineness of the Weather, and the pleasant country I am 
now in. 
24. Tuesday. Travelled S.W.b.S. 5 Miles. I killed a large Moose, 
took the heart, & gave the remains to the Indians. Level land and 
ledges of woods. Saw several Magpies, Pidgeons, and beautiful Wood- 
peckers. We are yet in Muscuty plains. 
25. Wednesday. ‘Travelled 5 Miles West, Level land. Indians 
killed 6 Moose & 2 Buffalo. 
26. Thursday. Travelled 5 Miles W.b.N. Hillocks & Dales. I 
killed a Moose, and the Indians a good many. 
27. Friday. Travelled 7 Miles W.b.N. Ridgy land with hommocks 
of wood & small Creeks. Indians killed 6 Beaver, 3 Moose and 3 Buffalo. 
Saw a large smoke which we think are the Archithinue Natives. 
28. Saturday. Travelled none. Several tents of Indians joined 
us: they made me a present of some fat meat and one dryed snake 64 
feet long. 
29. Sunday. Travelled none. Women dressing Skins for Shoes. 
Joined by more Asirepoet Indians, & two Archithinue Natives on Horse- 
back; who informed us it is the Archithinue Smoke we saw: and that 
it will be eight days before we reach them. 
30. Monday. No Musketoes to trouble us; Travelled ? Miles 
W.S.W. Level lands, & small hommocks of woods. Joined by more 
Asinepoet Indians, who have 6 pack-horses loaded with provisions, &c. 
October 1. Tuesday. Travelled none. Came to us 7 tents of Archi- 
thinue Indians; the men all mounted on Horse-back, with Bows ani 
Arrows, & bone spears & darts. I gave the Leader a foot of tobacco, 
one fire Steel, a string of beads, a knife; and smoked with them. By 

into America by the Spaniards, was first adopted by the tribes of the South- 
west, its use gradually spreading north to the Missouri. There the Black- 
feet no doubt first acquired them. From the Blackfeet they were introduced 
among the western Assiniboines, and finally reached their kinsmen in the 
Red River country. See Dr. Bain’s foot-note, to p. 295 of Henry’s “ Travels.” 
