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my interpreter he said that he would inform their Great Leader of my 
coming & so left us. 
2. Wednesday. Travelled 7 Miles S.W. Level land. In the even- 
ing an Asinepoet Indian shot a Boy by accident. Saw several wild 
Goats. My feet a little swelled. 
3. Thursday. Travelled 12 Miles W.S.W. passed 2 Creeks where 
were growing the largest Pines and Birch trees I have yet seen. Indians 
killed 6 Buffalo, 2 Moose and three Beaver. 
4. Friday. Travelled W.S.W. 5 Miles. Hillocks, Dales and Wil- 
lows; plenty of water ponds: Buffalo in great droves: Indians killed à 
& I one. 
5. Saturday went 6 Miles W.S.W. Level land and no woods: 
passed two creeks, & several Iron Mines running in large long veins. 
Great plenty of Buffalo. We are still in the Muscuty Country. 
6. Sunday. Travelled 7 Miles S.W. Several Creeks with plenty 
of Beaver: Indians killed 28 Buffalo. They are not so large as those 
I first met with. Two young men brought in 3 Goats: they are not so 
large as the Welsh ones. 
7. Monday. Travelled none. Several Indians joined us. I was 
invited to a Beaver feast: Saw the Archithinue Smoke. Here is a ridge 
of fine flint stone. 
8. Tuesday. Travelled 7 Miles S.W. pleasant valleys, hillocks, & 
ledges of woods. Indians killed a great many Buffalo, took out the 
tongues & left the remains to be eat by the Wolves. I cannot say whether 
them or the Buffalo are most numerous. Saw several snakes. 
9. Wednesday. Travelled 5 Miles S.W.b.W. Level land with 
plenty of Creeks, 16 tents of different Natives pitched from us different 
‘ways. Indians killed many Buffalo. 
10. Thursday. Travelled none. Indians killed several Beaver 
for cloathing, as cold weather is approaching. 16 Beaver were taken 
out of one house. They are very numerous about the Creeks. 
11. Friday. Travelled ? Miles S.W.b.W. then came to Waskesew 
River,’ and crossed it on a Fall about two feet high, and much the same 


*Red Deer River. Mr. D. B. Dowling, of the Geological Survey, who is 
thoroughly familiar with this part of the Northwest, and whose assistance 
has been invaluable in tracing Hendry’s course across the plains, confidently 
identifies Hendry’s Waskesew river as the Red Deer, and is satisfied that the 
explorer crossed the Red Deer, on Oct. 11th, a little above Knee Hills Creek 
(51° 32°). The ironstone nodules mentioned by Hendry are found in this 
locality, though not peculiar to it. Dr. Selwyn, in his exploratory survey 
of 1873, found ‘them in abundance on the South Saskatchewan, about 80 
