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ful country, our Course towards the N.E.: We were joined by different 
tribes of Natives, who yearly visited our Settlements: they brought with 
them several Archithinue Women & Children Captives, with many Scalps 
quite green: We are now at Archithinue lake, about one mile broad, 
& a good days journey in length; with tall woods on both sides mostly 
pines, the largest I have yet seen. 
28. Friday. Travelled 4 Miles N.E.b.E. then put up to feast &c. 
The Scalps were displayed on long poles round the tents; & the Captives, 
Boys & Girls, were given away as presents to one another. They pre- 
sented to me a Boy & Girl; which I declined accepting of in as modest 
a manner as possible. 
March 1. Saturday. Killed 3 Buffalo & 2 Moose: A Captive Girl 
aged ‘about 17 years was knocked on the head with a Tomahawk by a 
Man’s wife in a fit of jealousy: No notice was taken as such game is 
common amongst them: the unfortunate Girl had been presented to the 
Murtherer’s husband yesterday.? 
2&3. Sunday & Monday. Travelled 20 Miles towards the N.E.: 
Level land; tall woods: passed two Creeks & crossed another branch of 
the Weskesew river.* 
4. Tuesday. Travelled ? Miles N.E. on the river: the water run- 
ning over the ice in places: High banks & tall woods. 
5. Wednesday. ‘Travelled 5 Miles N.E. on the river: it thaws 
very much; our sleds in the water most part of the way: the banks as 
yesterday. 
6. Thursday. Employed securing their Furs from Water, in order 
to hunt, Game being scarce here. 
7. Friday. Indians pitched different ways in search of food: 
Myself and Tent mates are to continue here if we can procure food: 
We are twelve in number; three men, Nine women & Children: What 



1Devil’s Pine Lake, the source of Devils Pine Creek. Lake and creek 
are named Ghostpine on some recent maps. The lake is about in long. 
113° 30’, lat. 52° 10’. Hendry’s description clearly identifies the lake. 
? Similar incidents are narrated in the journals of other early travellers 
among the western tribes. Though the women were in a state of abject 
servitude to their own lords and masters, fierce elemental instincts occa- 
sionally had the mastery of them. If the slave was valuable, the husband 
would sometimes punish the jealous wife. Generally, however, the incident 
passed unnoticed, as in the present instance. 
’ Hendry has now returned to the Red Deer, seventy miles or so above 
the point wlere he crossed it in October. The point he has now reached 
is above Tail Creek, where the Red Deer turns almost due south on its way 
to join the South Saskatchewan. 
