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accustomed to approach the Hudson's Bay Company's posts 

 singing their Hi-he-ah, Hi-he-ah, or war song, in savage 

 unison. 



On the 20th July the canoes were launched on the 

 Third Fishing Lake, and having seen Mr. Hime en route 

 for Long Lake, my carts and horses on the way to the 

 Grand Forks of the Qu'appelle, and Mr. Dickinson 

 started for the mouth of the river, I embarked with Mr. 

 Fleming, an Ojibway, and a Cree half-breed, and paddled 

 up stream with a view to trace out the valley to its 

 junction with the South Branch of the Saskatchewan. 

 The succeeding Chapter contains a narrative of this ex- 

 ploration, which is followed by Mr. Dickinson's descrip- 

 tion of his canoe voyage to the Assinniboine. We 

 arranged to meet at Fort Ellice forty-three days after our 

 simultaneous departure from the Third Fishing Lake. 



