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all the countries, lands and territories upon the coasts and confines of 

 the said seas, etc.. so that they alone should have the right of trading 

 thither, and whoever should infringe this right, and be found selling or 

 buying within the said boundaries, should be arrested and all his or 

 their merchandizes should become forfeit and confiscated, so that one- 

 ha'f thereof should belong to the King and the other half to the Hud- 

 son Bay Company." 



1670. — The Company sent out Chas. Bavly, as Governor, to establish Governor 



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a post at Rupert s River in 51° 20 N. Lat. He was accompanied by 

 ■Groisselier and Radisson and remained in the country. 



1673. — Groisselier visited the Nelson, but failing to find any Indians 

 did not remain. 



1674. — It being decided that a greater trade could be done with the 

 Indians on the west side of the bay, owing to their remoteness from 

 the French, Mr. Bayly made a voyage in a sloop to that coast, 

 •examining the mouths of the Moose and Schatawan 1 or Albany rivers, 

 and passing between the island of Agoomski (called by him Diner's 

 Island) and the mainlaind, reached Cape Henrietta Maria, entering the 

 mouth of the Equan River on the way. It had been his intention to 

 proceed as far as Port Nelson, but having trouble with his guide he 

 returned from Cape Henrietta Maria. During the same summer he 

 sent a party to explore the Nodway or Frenchmen's River, but they 

 only ascended as far as the first fall, a short distance from the mouth. 



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In the fall there arrived at Fort Charles a Jesuit missionary with let- missionary 

 ters from the Governor of Quebec ; this was Pore Charles Albanel, who by Lake Mis- 

 reached the bay by ascending the Saguenay River to Lake St. .lohn, 

 thence up the Ashouapmouchouan River, across the Height of Land to 

 Mistassini and down ,the Rupert River, which flows out of that lake. 

 An account of his trip is given in the Relations of the .Jesuits.* As he 

 left Canada in 1072, lie had been two years making the trip, having 

 been detained by the Indians, who stripped him of his clothes, so that 

 he had to be clothed by Mr. Bayly, who received him kindly and sent 

 him home in the ship. 



1675. — Outposts were established at Hayes Island, in the mouth of Establishment 

 the Moose River, and at Albany. A short time after this the head fort jfayes'l^Uind 

 was removed to Albany, and a depot established on Charleton Island, ^ Albany, 

 where the ship from England discharged her cargo, furs being brought 

 there from the posts, and the next season's outfits returned in sloops. 



1682. — Three parties reached the mouth of the Nelson River within 

 a short time of* each other ; the first to arrive was Benjamin Gillan. a 

 son of Capt. Z. Gillan, who had been sent from Boston ; fourteen days 

 later came Groisselier and Radisson from Quebec; they having been 



* Relations ties Jesuits <lans la Nouvelle France, vol. iii. 



