26 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL 77 
tives, pitched in two rows, and an opening in the middle; where we 
were conducted to the Leader’s tent; which was at one end, large 
enough to contain fifty persons; where he received us seated on a 
clear [white] Buffalo skin, attended by 20 elderly men. He made 
signs for me to sit down on his right hand: which I did. Our Leader 
set on several] grand-pipes, and smoked all round, according to their 
usual custom: not a word was yet spoke on either side. Smoking 
being over, Buffalo flesh boiled was served round in baskets of a 
species of bent, and I was presented with 10 Buffalo tongues.” The 
following day he again visited the lodge of the chief, where he re- 
ceived as a gift “a handsome Bow & Arrows,” and the journal con- 
tinues: “I departed and took a view of the camp. Their tents were 
pitched close to one another in two regular lines, which formed a 
broad street open at both ends. Their horses are turned out to 
grass, their legs being fettered: and when wanted, are fastened to 
lines cut of Buffalo skin, that stretches along & is fastened to stakes 
drove in the ground. They have hair halters, Buffalo skin pads, & 
stirrups of the same.” 
Although Hendry mentioned the encampment to consist of 200 
lodges it is quite evident others were in the vicinity, or came soon 
after his arrival, for three days later, on October 17, he noted in his 
journal “322 tents of Archithinue Natives unpitched and moved 
Westward.” (Hendry, (1), pp. 337-840.) They did not have per- 
manent villages, and “never wanted food, as they followed the 
Buffalo & killed them with the Bows and Arrows.” They were un- 
acquainted with the canoe, would not eat fish, and their garments 
were finely painted with red paint.” Such were the Blackfeet about 
the middle of the eighteenth century. 
On June 27, 1772, Matthew Cocking, second factor at York Fac- 
tory. started on a journey quite similar to that performed by Hendry 
just eighteen years earlier. He ascended Hayes River, passed north 
of Lake Winnipeg, and continued in a southwestwardly direction to 
some point not far north of the South Saskatchewan River in the 
extreme western part of the present Province of Saskatchewan. 
When near this position on December 1, 1772, they encamped not far 
from a “ Beast pound,” which had probably stood from year to year. 
That day, so he entered in his journal, “our Archithinue friends 
came to us and pitched a small distance from us; on one side the 
pound 21 tents of them, the other seven are pitched another way.” 
And the following day, “the Archithinue Natives repairing the 
pound, the repair we gave it on our arrival not being sufficient.” 
Two days later “the Archithinue Natives drove into the pound 3 
male & one female Buffalo, & brought several considerable droves 
very near: They set off in the Evening; & drive the Cattle all night. 
