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14. Thursday. Women making cloathing for cold weather: Some 
families have not got half enough of skins for cloathing them on the 
aproaching winter: & what surprizes me most, they never go out of their 
tents but when they want provisions, altho’ the Beaver & Otters are 
swarming about us in the Creeks & Swamps, not one went out to-day 
but myself, & I killed two Otters. 
15. Friday. Travelled 6 Miles to a creek where there are plenty 
of Beaver Houses. 
16. Saturday. Clear frosty weather. Indians killed several 
Beaver. 
17. Sunday. Seven tents of Indians pitched W. ward from us & 
what remained, killed 7 Beaver, one Waskesew, & 2 Moose. The Beaver 
Dams bear people, which favors in killing the Beaver. 
18. Monday. Travelled none. Broke open two Beaver houses but 
got none; having got past our stakes, the Beaver houses are not so strong 
by two thirds of the thickness, as I have seen about York Fort. 
19. Tuesday. Travelled none. Indians killed a few Beaver. Wild 
minth grows here in great plenty. 
20. Wednesday. Clear frosty weather. It snowed a little last night. 
Travelled none. The Indian men a Beaver hunting: the Women dress- 
ing skins for cloathing. 
21. Thursday. Clear frosty weather. Travelled 6 Miles S.E. 
Plains & Ledges of tall Birch trees. Thaws very little to-day.! 
22. Friday. Travelled none. Indians killed a few Beaver. One 
man narrowly escaped from a Grizzle Bear that he had wounded, by 
throwing his Beaver coat from him; which the Bear tore to pieces, & 
which the Natives always do when forced to retreat. The Men & Dogs 
went out & killed the Bear. 
23 to 27. Saturday, Sunday, Monday & Tuesday. Snow at In- 
tervals. The men killed a few Beaver; & the Women dressing skins for 


1 Andrew Graham notes: “Anthony Hendry was from York Fort on the 
21st day of Nov’r L. ° 59 W’st 810 miles.’ Presumably this means S. 59° W. 
Wherever Graham got his information, he was hopelessly at sea. Hendry 
was, as a matter of fact, at that date, over a thousand miles as the crow 
flies from York Fort, and had, of course, travelled much more than that dis- 
tance. If Hendry’s course has been correctly followed, he was on the 21st 
day of November, 1754, in about lat. 51° 50’ N., long. 114° W. This was his 
farthest point west. Since crossing the Red Deer and visiting the Blackfeet, 
he had travelled west, crossed Knee Hilis Creek, and worked round in à 
N.N.W’ly direction to his present position—only a few miles east of the line 
of the Calgary & Edmonton Ry. From this date his courses are generally 
toward the east, though he zigzags about the country of the Blackfeet for 
five months, waiting for the ice to break up in the spring, as he is to make 
his return journey by canoe down the Red Deer and Saskatchewan. 
