[BURPEE] AN ADVENTURER FROM HUDSON BAY lOl 



5. Wednesday. Proceeded: Paddled in the afternoon, met with 

 15 canoes who had traded all thedr furs with the Pedlars; they are laying 

 by waiting for their friends. The Indians inform me that we are now 

 arrived at the dry Country, no Lakes being on either side the river. 

 Course South 68° Wt., distance IS miles. 



6. Thursday. Proceeded : we met a Canoe going down to the 

 JSTatives we saw yesterday, informed us that a Canoe was waiting a little 

 fartker on to assist us; "We expect to see them to-moTrow. After pad- 

 dling about 4 miles nearly S.W. We passed a branch of the river which 

 runs W.b.S. & wliich the Katives say joins the river again a long way up 

 the Country. It is named little Sturgeon river; We caught some here: 

 a little before we put up for the night passed an opening bearing S.b. 

 Wt. which joins the river a little above Basquia, being a small branch;^ 

 Course So. 32 Wt. distance 14 miles. 



7. Friday. Proceeded ; paddled, & tracked : at noon came up with 

 the Canoe, our friends ; They inform us that many Natives are gone to 

 war, & others intended to go, for grieft at the loss of their friends. In 

 Saskatchewan river. Our Course So. 48° Wt., distance 20 miles. ÎST.B. — 

 Pa.^sed an opening that bore S.b.E. (a little before we put up for the 

 night) named Peatagow river.^ 



8. Saturday. Proceeded; & in the afternoon passed by an old 

 Trading house,^ belonging to the French pedlars before the conquest of 

 Quebec : Eiver as yet broad, has many Islands producing Pine & Willows : 

 good water for Canoes. Course So. 79° Wt., 11 miles distance. 



9. Sunday. Proceeded: Paddled, & tracked, the latter mostly; 

 bad walking: Eed Deer plenty hereabouts named Waskesew: passed an- 

 other old house: One Mr. Finley from Montreal resided in it five years 

 ago.* The river begins to grow shoal. Course Corrected So. 28° Wt., 

 and distance 21 miles. 



10. Monday. Tracked : In the Evening came to a tent of Natives; 

 The current strong, & the depth of water barely sufficient for our Canoes 

 in many places. Course corrected So. 62° Wt., 17 miles. 



11. Tuesday. In the afternoon . came to the Families Viz, s^even 

 tents of them. Here the Natives always wait for their Friends: Former- 

 ly the French had a House here.^ Course corrected S. 39° Wt.. 141/^ 

 miles distance. From Basquia to this place I make the Course to be So. 

 r)8° wt., & distance 150 miles. 



1 Sipanok canal. 



2 Not to be confused with Hendry's Peatago river — the Carrot. 



3 One of the forts built by La Vérendrye or La Corne. 



4 James Finlay. See note to Hendry's Journal (R.S.C., 1907, II, 314). 



5 Fort La Corne. See Hendry's Journal (R.S.C., 1907, II, 311). 



