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gencies, tradesmen must work at anything. Killing of partridges the 

 most pleasant duty. A ship of 300 ton burden, bearing provisions, ar- 

 rives yearly in August or early September. Sails again in ten days, 

 wind permitting, with cargo and those returning." After enumerating 

 the several other posts on the Bay, Severn, Albany, Henley House, East 

 Main House, and Moose Factory, Andrew Graham concludes : " All are 

 under one discipline, and excepting the sub-houses, each factor receives 

 a commission to act for benefit of Company, without being answerable 

 to any person or persons in the Bay, more than to consult for good of 

 Company in emergencies and to supply one another with trading goods, 

 &c., if capable, the receiver giving credit for the same." 



Ballantyne and other writers have described York Factory as it ap- 

 peared at a later day, but that is not to the present purpose. 



Note. — Since this introduction was written, the writer has had an oppor- 

 tunity of discussing- Cocking's course with xvlr. J. B. Tyrrell, who is thor- 

 oughly familiar with the ground. Mr. Tyrrell is of opinion that Cocking did 

 not go through Knee lake, but left the Hayes route above that lake, paddled 

 through Deer lake (which lies west of Knee lake), and up the river which 

 flows into it, to Cross lake (Cocking's Pimochickomow), over Cross lake, up 

 Nelson river, to the mouth of Kiskitto or Kiskittogisu river, up this river, 

 which is easy travelling-, and over a swampy portage into Minago river, up 

 this latter river and over a portage to Moose lake (Cocking's Oteatowan 

 Sockoegan). 



