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I cannot describe one-tenth part of the incidents of my life at this period. "We had again accumulated several packages of peltries, which it was intended to exchange with the fur-traders for blankets and numerous other articles of which the tribe were in want. "One day, however, another party of Indians, under a chief called `Peshauba, or the `Crooked Lightning, came and encamped near us.
Then she quieted down, and in a very straightforward way told us her story, which was as follows: "When Robert goes out and shoots a deer, it is true he does not come home with the gun upon his shoulder, and make me go out on his trail and bring in the game; he brings it in himself, like the other Christian Indians; but when it is brought in, he makes me skin it; and then takes the two haunches over to the fort, and there exchanges them with the fur-traders for some flour, tea and sugar, which he brings home.
It contained the pipe, tinder-box, flint, steel, and tobacco which are usually supplied by the fur-traders to the Red men. Cheenbuk was so interested in the proceedings of his companion that he ceased to carry on his own work, thereby allowing the sticks to cool and losing his labour.
Everybody goes that way, and has done so for years. But that isn't the old canoe trail of Mackenzie and Fraser." "Everybody goes on the Giscombe Portage now," said Moise. "Well, all the fur-traders used to come in here, at least before they had studied out this country very closely. You see, they didn't have any maps they were the ones who made the first maps.
Old records of the French régime, daily journals of the Hudson's Bay Company fur-traders, repeatedly refer to well-known mines between Lake Superior and James Bay; but fur-traders discouraged mining; and this region is less known to-day than when coureur de bois and voyageur threaded river and lake and leafy wilderness. Ontario, like Quebec, is only on the outer edge of realizing her own wealth.
But the fur-trader felt that the interests of his employers were at stake; besides, had he not said to others, had he not vowed to himself, that he would not give way an inch no, not so much as a hair's-breadth to these long-legged interlopers, who, now that he beheld them, were evidently fur-traders in disguise, men who made use of a so-called saw-mill as a mere blind to divert attention from the real object they had in view.
"Ay, letters and newspapers from England." A loud cheer greeted this announcement. The packet was hauled out of the sleigh, hurried up to the fort, torn open with eager haste, and the fur-traders of Fort Erie were soon devouring the contents like hungry men. And they were hungry men they were starving!
Trappers, hunters and fur-traders in occasional instances, penetrated into the heart of the mighty solitude. Lewis and Clarke had made their expedition to the head-waters of the Columbia, but the result of all these visits, to the civilized world, was much the same as that of the adventurers who have penetrated into the interior of Africa.
He stayed about twenty years in the country of Manitoba with his brother Wa-ke-zoo, among other tribes of Indians and white fur-traders in that section of the country. Many times he has grappled with and narrowly escaped from the grizzly bear and treacherous buffalo which were then very numerous in that portion of the country. This was about one hundred years ago.
Though we had found the path easily enough in daylight, it would be a hard matter to do so in the dark. "I should very much like to turn trapper," said Reuben to me as we walked along. "I once heard a good deal about the lives the trappers lead, from a fine old man who stopped at our house one night, on his way to dispose of his packs of skins at one of the fur-traders' posts."
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