CHAPTER XVII. 



Horrible Esquimaux attack. — Massacre of Loucheux. — Indian bravery. — 

 Anatomical research. — Five Commoners make one Chief. — Mr. Peers' 

 unsuccessful mediation. — Indian instincts of revenge. — Indian supplies. 

 Leave for Fort Norman. — Indian Guides. — -Followers dog us. — Enemy 

 captures our stores. — Enter Mackenzie. — Guides quit us. — Dogs again. 

 — Encamp. — Our hut takes fire. — Pine Forests. — Ice-master frost- 

 bitten. — Reach Fort Good Hope. — Mr. Mc Beatli ; his kind attentions. 

 — Cent Sous Rajjid. — Bear River. — Bui'ning banks. — Reach Fort 

 Norman. — Mr. Mc Kenzie ; his hospitality. — Salteaux' Legend of the 

 Deluge.— Wolf Brothers & Co. 



Four or five years ago a party of fifteen or twenty 

 Esquimaux ascended the Mackenzie, and entered the 

 Peel river, where, just at its mouth, were encamped 

 a party of Eond du Lac Loucheux, consisting of 

 three men, their wives, and five children. These 

 they came upon secretly at night, and surrounding 

 the lodge wherein they slept, gave a fearful yell, 

 which awakened the inmates, who, rushing out in 

 aff'right, were successively struck down by the arrows 

 of their merciless foes ; only one escaped, a little boy, 

 of nine years old, who made his way through the 

 woods up to the Company's fort, to the surprise both 

 of friends and enemies, who never expected him to 



