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notwithstanding, is still alive, and, to appearance, 

 likely to recover of her wounds. 



Monday, June 2. Last evening, Messrs. J. 

 Hughes and Alexander Stewart came here, on 

 horse back, from the North Branch, which passes 

 within fifteen miles from this. There, they left 

 their canoes and people ; and on their return, they 

 will continue their rout to the New Fort. — Mr. 

 Smith and myself, if providence permit, are to pass 

 the summer at this place, where we have three 

 interpreters, four labouring men, and a number of 

 Avomen and children. As my companion is a sen- 

 sible, well informed and sociable young man, 1 

 hope to pass my time both pleasantly and profita- 



Friday, August 8. Six Assiniboins have arriv- 

 ed, and inform us, that about eighty tents of Crees 

 and Assiniboins, with about as many of the Black 

 feet Indians, were on their way to wage war with 

 the Rapid Indians, their common enemy. But the 

 two former tribes quarrelled, in their march, re- 

 specting a horse, which they both claimed, and 

 which neither would relinquish. This circum- 

 stance occasioned a battle between them, which 

 lasted during a day, in which twenty five of the 

 Black feet Indians, and three of the Assiniboins, 

 were killed. This put an end to the expedition, 

 for this season. 



