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16 to 19. Friday to Monday. The lame man doing well: Busy 

 trapping: good success: several Smokes near us which we suppose are 

 our Friends the "ârchithinue Natives : The Natives shew me a tobacco 

 plantation ^ belonging to the Archithinue Indians about 100 yards long 

 & 5 wide, sheltered from the northern blasts by a Ledge of poplars; & 

 to the Southward by a ridge of high ground. 



20. Tuesday. We are preparing to proceed to-morrow, to be in 

 readiness for pounding Buffalo at an Archithinue pound. 



21. Wednesday. We did not proceed as intended, waiting to 

 kill Buffalo which were seen in great droves this morning. 



22. Thursday. We proceedel to the Pound: Course S.S.W. & 

 distance 6 miles: The lame man on the mending hand. Course cor- 

 rected since September 21st South 60° West & distance 48 miles. From 

 York Fort to the Buffalo pound. Course by true Compass South •^48 

 West. Distance 752 miles. 



23. Friday. Every person repairing the Beast pound.- " It is a cir- 

 cle fenced round with trees laid one upon another, at the foot of an Hill 

 about, 7 feet high & an hundred yards in Circumference : the entrance 

 on the Hill-side where the Animal can easily go over ; but when in, can- 

 not return : From this entrance small sticlcs are laid on each side like a 

 fence, in form of an angle extending from the pound; beyond these to 

 about 1% mile distant. Buffalo dung, or old roots are laid in Heaps, in 

 the same direction as the fence : These are to frighten the Beasts from 

 deviating from either side. This pound was made by our Archithinue 

 ■friends last spring, who had great success, many Skulls & Bones lying in 

 the pound. Several Buffalo seen near at hand, & the Yoimg men en- 

 deavoured to drive them beyond the pound but without success. 



24. Saturday. Wolves, Foxes, the Koebuck; another Animal of 

 the Deer kind named Pistaticoos,^ but something less in size; plenty of 

 Hares ; pheasants ; Crows ; Magpies & small Birds of the same kind as 

 to the Northward : Ked Deer are scarce. Snow fell last night. 



25 to 26. Sunday to Monday. Snow at times : Natives employed 

 trapping & endeavouring to drive Buffalo to the pound but without suc- 

 cess. We are, not so expert at pounding as the Archithinue Natives. 



27 to Nov. 3. Tuesday to Tuesday included the 3rd November. 

 Snow all dissolved : Natives trapping & killing Buffalo with the Bow & 

 Arrows: And in the Evenings Conjuring & feasting. 



1 On Indian tobacco, see Hendry's Journal, note (R.S.C., 1907, II, 339). 



2 See note on buffalo and buffalo pounds — Hendry's Journal (R.S.C., 1907, 

 n,'333). 



3 Probably antelope. 



