BURPEE] AN ADVENTURER FROM HUDSON BAY 8(9 



Kaiskatchewan river ^ in sight : We killed eleven sturgeon & a few 

 Tickomeg (i.e.) Guinaids ^ & one black Bear; A seasonable supply being 

 greatly in want: The Pedlar, Mr. Currie ^ (who intercepted great part 

 of York Fort trade tliis year),* is one days paddling below this river, at 

 Cedar Lake : Laid up a fifth reserve of tobacco. Sounded 6 fathoms in 

 Outeatowan lake on the IST.W. side where we paddled about S.W. 

 27 miles, then came at a small river named Kippahagan Sepee (i.e) 

 Shut up river and paddled a small distance in it. Course South 42 West, 

 distance 30 miles. 



24. Friday. We did not proceed: Busy killing Sturgeon: We are 

 now recovering our spirits: The Natives inform me we will soon be 

 where food of many kinds are plenty. 



25. Saturday. We did not proceed : busy killing Sturgeon : In the 

 Evening Lewis Primo ^ with 4 Canoes in Company came here : He in- 

 forms me his Leader died on the road. 



26. Sunday. We did not proceed. 



27 & 28. Monday & Tuesday. Primow with his Company pro- 

 ceeded but we did not : The sick recovering & food plenty. 



29. Wednesday. Proceeded: Paddled & Carried: Here are Grey 

 Geese, Old & Young : After paddling about 4 miles W. b. S. from Outea- 

 towan Lake in Kippahakan Eiver. Carried our Canoes & goods over a 

 neck of land into Saskatchewan Eiver & paddled up it. Course West & 

 distance 8 miles. 



30. Thursday. Proceeded : Paddled & carried to & again between 

 Saskatchewan Eiver & a Shallow Lake, hunting Geese &c. on the South 

 Saskatchewan river. Course South 81 West & distance 18 Miles. 



31. Friday. Proceeded & came to Basquia.^ Here at a small 

 river where the Natives killed Guinaids with hand nets : Many Natives 

 had been here lately: This is a long frequented place where the Cana- 

 dians rendezvous & trade with the Natives : Many of their Superstitious 

 & Fanciful marks ^re seen here: We met an Indian with his wife & 



1 The Saskatchewan. 



2 Whitefish. Captain Coats, in his " Geography of Hudson Bay," says 

 " titimiegg is a fish not unlike our largest white herrings." 



3 Thomas Curry or Currie. 



4 Andrew Graham, the factor at York Factory, notes: "Mr. Currie's 

 encroachment was the reason I sent Mr. Cocking inland." 



5 Dr. Elliott Coues notes one Joseph Primeau, interpreter of the North- 

 West Company, at Fort des Prairies in 1804. Probably the same name, 



though not same man. Lewis Primo's connection with both Cocking and 

 Samuel Hearne is made clear in Miss Agnes Laut's Conquest of the Great 

 Northwest. 



«The Pas. See note to Hendry's Journal R.S.C., 1907, U, 325). 



