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Updated: May 24, 2025
As the Factor was busy with another Indian when the Chief entered for Oo-koo-hoo was the chief of the Ojibways of that district he waited patiently, as he would not deign to do business with a clerk. When he saw the trader free, he greeted: "Quay, quay, Hugemow!" "Gude day, man Oo-koo-hoo, what can I do for ye the day?" amicably responded the Factor. "Master, it is this way.
When the work was finished the father and the mother crawled into a double bunk that was surrounded by a curtain; Ko-ko-hay wound herself up in a blanket and lay down upon the floor, and Oo-koo-hoo did likewise, yet there were two bunks still unoccupied. But I was informed that I was to occupy the single one, while the four girls were to sleep in the big double one.
Shortly after breakfast strange dogs were heard. The boys ran out and saw an unknown man approaching. When the newcomer a French-Canadian half-breed had eaten, and had joined the others in a smoke, he gave me a letter from Free Trader Spear. Then Oo-koo-hoo began questioning him: "My brother, you are a stranger in this country; so I have given you fire and food and tobacco in friendship.
"Potatoes," he exclaimed. "Good," I laughed. "Then sit down, please, and rest while I do the cooking." Oo-koo-hoo now came in and at the host's bidding, filled his pipe from a tobacco pouch upon the table.
On entering the Indian shop or trading room, Oo-koo-hoo was ready to talk about anything under the sun save business, as he wanted to force the Trader to solicit his patronage; but as the Factor was trying to make the hunter do the same thing, they parted company a little later without having mentioned the word "trade."
That night, as Oo-koo-hoo was in a talkative mood, he told me much about the hunting of moose, as we sat before our snow-encircled fire in the still, silent, sombre woods. "We hunters usually take moose by shooting or snaring them, and the first thing to do is to find a track, and if it is old, follow it up until new signs appear.
On asking Oo-koo-hoo how many poles would be required for the canvas lodge which he had kindly offered me the use of for the coming winter, he replied: "My son, cut a pole for every moon, and cut them thirteen feet in length, and the base of the tepee, too, should be thirteen feet across." Then looking at me with his small, shrewd, but pleasant eyes, he added: "Thirteen is our lucky number.
When I asked Oo-koo-hoo why he had addressed the deer in such a manner, he replied that it was the proper and regular way to speak to an animal, because every creature in the forest, whether beast, bird, or fish, contained the spirit of some former human being.
Several of the passageways led to the bank, where, Oo-koo-hoo said, they had what is called "bank lodges" natural cavities in the river bank to which the beavers had counted on resorting in case their house was raided.
It was the one that displayed the Great Company's coat-of-arms; so Oo-koo-hoo, the famous white-water-man, not only won his choice and retained his dollar, but furthermore, he and his crew actually did keep the bow of that canoe ahead of all others no matter where or when the other crews contested for the honour of leading the Fur Brigade.
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