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17. Tuesday. Snow & ice all gone: killed 2 Beaver, and after- 
wards making Snow-shoes. 
18. Wednesday. Made 7 pairs of Snow-Shoes, there being no 
Birch the way we are to go. 
19. Thursday. Travelled 5 Miles East: Level land, no woods: 
killed one Buffalo. 
20. Friday. Travelled 8 Miles E.N.E. Land as Yesterday: Saw 
plenty of Wolves, Moose and Waskesew. 
21. Saturday. Travelled none: killed 2 Beaver & one Waskesew. 
22. Sunday. Travelled none: Snowed all day, killed 2 Beaver. 
23. Monday. Travelled nine miles E.b.N. Crossed a branch of 
Waskesew River:! In the Evening I wounded a Buffalo. 
24. Tuesday. Travelled none: I found my Buffalo lying dead 
a small distance from our tent. On a rising ground I had an extensive 
view of the Muscuty country which will be the last this trip inland. 
25. Wednesday. Killed 2 Beaver. We have a frost in the night 
& partly gone in the day. 
26 & 27. Thursday & Friday. Killed 2 Waskesew and 2 Moose: 
I set a Wolf-Hap. I asked the Natives why they did not Hap Wolves; 
they made Answer that the Archithinue Natives would kill them, if they 
trapped in their country: I then asked them when & where they were 
to get the Wolves &c, to carry down in the Spring. They made no an- 
swer; but laughed one to another. 
28. Saturday. Frost & snow & very cold weather: I travelled 5 
Miles N.E.b.N. Level land, & narrow ledges of poplar, Alder & trees. 
got a Wolf in my Hap, & set 2 more; the Wolves are numerous. An 
Indian told me that my tent-mates were angry with me last night for 
speaking so much concerning Happing, & advised me to say no more 
about it, for they would get more Wolves, Beaver &c. from the Archi- 
thinue Natives in the spring, than they can carry. 
29. Sunday. Travelled none: got two Wolves from my Haps: 
Indians killed 2 Moose. 
30. Monday. Snowing & freezing weather: Got two Wolves from 
my Haps: Travelled 4 Miles N.E.: Level land, Creeks, & Willows: 
killed one Buffalo: I supply them with powder very sparingly, one 
charge at a time; the bullet we oftentimes get again. 
31. Tuesday. Hard freezing weather. Killed two beaver; very 
numerous hereabouts: I did speak again to kill beaver but to no pur- 
pose. 
January 1. Wednesday. Freezing weather: Indians killed one 
Beaver & 2 Waskesew. I wear a Buffalo skin pair of shoes with the 
hair inwards. 

1Knee Hills Creek. 
