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way up the last string of rapids about 6 p.m. Loyer left us this morning 
to go to the Fort. 
October — 
Ist.—Overcast. Started before 6 a.m. and having got up a number 
of Shoal Rapids full of large stones, we arrived at Jasper’s House about 
10 o’clock. The remainder of the day was occupied remaking packs 
Leather, gumming the canoes, &e., &e. Out of the packs rendered this 
summer at this place we find about one to be useless. We found on 
arrival here 3 men from the Columbia with a letter from J. W. Dease, 
Esq.,! dated from the West end of the Portage Oct. 25th.” 
2nd.—Fine weather but cool. The 4 canoes were sent off about 8 
o’elock this morning to proceed to the Portage, the 2 large ones, laden 
with each 15 packs Leather and 3 Cassettes or cases and manned by 6 
men—and the 2 old ones each 12 packs 1 Cassette and manned by 5 
men. Provisions 1 bag Pemican pr. canoe. At noon our horses being 
collected and the baggage tied &c. our van marched and the whole 
party were off from Jasper’s by 1 p.m. All the gentlemen and families 
go by land to lighten the canoes. Our pieces for this amount 66 packs 
Leather and parchment,18 bags pemican with our private baggage and 
the number of horses we are to employ on the Portage amount to 54. 
We encamped at 5 p.m. below the point of Mietts Rock,’ which is high 
and difficult to pass. The mares are to follow us light to the Portage. 
3rd.—Fine weather. Started at 8 a.m. and proceeded generally 
through a good track and encamped at Campment de Cardinalle* a 
small creek, after descending the hills beyond the 2nd Lake at 5 p.m. 
Apisasis killed two moose near the Encampment, which the horses 
fetch after they arrived from their day’s march. 
4th.—Fine weather. Started before 8 a.m. and arrived at the 
Portage® about noon. On our way thither the hunter killed another 
moose. We found the people with the canoes and cargoes here before 

* John Warren Dease; see page 75. 
? An error; should read Sept. 25th. 
’ Roche a Miette is a great cubical block opposite Jasper House and “is said to 
have been once ascended from the south side by a hunter named Miette after whom 
it was named.” Ermatinger’s ‘Roche Miette’ is now called Roche de Smet— Suette ’ 
on many maps—named after Father de Smet, the famous Roman Catholic missionary. 
It is not quite clear why the name was transferred from a peak on the west side of the 
Athabaska to one on the east side; possibly as a result of the temporary abandon- 
ment of Jasper House. In any event, it occurred between 1828 and the Palliser 
expedition in 1859. 
*Campment de Cardinal. 
5 Probably the mouth of Miette river at the present town of Fitzhugh. The 
trail to New Caledonia via the Yellowhead pass left the Athabaska at this point. 
