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My men stated that this was most unusual, though Bain said that he 
had once before seen a moose go completely under the water. 
We found the Indians at Fort Osnaburgh also inclined to be hostile. 
The band at Lac Seul had sent warning messages that they were to have 
nothing to do with us, as our purpose in coming to their country was to 
steal little boys. The fact that 
I wore spectacles also militated 
against me, as the Indians be- 
lieved that my glasses could 
see completely through them 
and read their thoughts. ‘The 
Hudson’s Bay Company had 
suspected several Indians of 
various petty misdemeanors 
and these Indians showed their 
guilty consciences by moving 
away as soon as we arrived. 
After some effort, however, we 
managed to come to friendly 
terms with these people and 
gained some results here. 
From Fort Osnaburgh we 
left Lake St. Joseph and 
descended the Albany River, 
about four days’ journey, when 
we turned aside and entered 
Lake Eabamet where the 
Hudson’s Bay Company has 
long had a post known as Fort 
Hope. At Fort Hope there 
had been listed by Govern- 
ment census 513 Indians who 
were drawing annuities of four 

‘PACKING’’ ON THE MISSANABIE RIVER 
All goods and specimens must be trans- 
ported in this manner part of the way in the 
forest. 
dollars each for England’s use of the Canadian territory, but the epidemic 
of influenza which swept the Indians of northern Canada last year had 
arried away eighty of them during the winter. 
We arrived at this place just before the Government men who were 
to pay the Indians their annuities. Hence we found the Indians all 
