236 CANADIAN WILDS. 



recorded. His name was A-ta-so-kan the only 

 help he had, a boy of twelve. 



This family left the Post in August and only 

 returned the following June. His hunting 

 grounds were just across the heights of lands 

 going towards Hudson's Bay, from the head- 

 waters of the Ottawa River. Game of all de- 

 scription was very plentiful then; so much so 

 that, providing an Indian likd a few pounds of 

 flour and lard to get away from the vicinity of 

 the station, his guns nets and snares kept him 

 in abundance. A-ta-so-kan, altho having sev- 

 eral children besides the boy took only fifty 

 pounds of flour, ten pounds of lard, one pound 

 of tea, and ten pounds of tobacco. Goods, how- 

 ever, he supplied himself well with such as 

 many of various bright-colored flannels, yards 

 of duffle, yards of H. B. strouds, both blue and 

 white, and several pairs of H. B. wool blankets. 

 These people were brought up on country pro- 

 duce: i. e., fish and flesh, therefore found it no 

 hardship to be without flour, etc., the white 

 man's food. From that one man and his young 

 boy I got at the end of the hunting season 

 (first of June) the following furs: 



96 Large Beaver Skins. 

 226 Small Beaver Skins. 

 32 Otters. 



