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 MACKENZIE'S VOYAGES
 



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VOYAGES from MONTREAL
THROUGH THE CONTINENT of NORTH AMERICA
TO THE
FROZEN and PACIFIC OCEANS
IN 1789 and 1793

WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE RISE 
AND STATE OF THE FUR TRADE

By

ALEXANDER MACKENZIE


WITH MAP

IN TWO VOLUMES

VOL. II.

NEW YORK
A. S. BARNES AND COMPANY
1903




Registered at the 
Library of Congress, August, 1902
A. S. BARNES & COMPANY



{iii}
Table of Contents.
 CHAPTER I.
Removed from the tent to the house.  Build habitations for the people.  The hardships they suffer.  Violent hurricane.  Singular circumstances attending it.  The commencement of the new year.  An Indian cured of a dangerous wound.  State of the weather.  Curious customs among the Indians, on the death of a relation.  Account of a quarrel.  An Indian's reasoning on it.  Murder of one of the Indians.  The cause of it.  Some account of the Rocky Mountain Indians.  Curious circumstance respecting a woman in labour, etc.  A dispute between two Indians, which arose from gaming.  An account of one of their games.  Indian superstition.  Mildness of the season.  The Indians prepare snow shoes.  Singular customs.  Further account of their manners.  The slavish state of the women.  Appearance of spring.  Dispatch canoes with the trade to Fort Chepewyan.  Make preparations for the voyage of discovery. ... 9

 CHAPTER II.
Proceed on the voyage of discovery.  Beautiful scenery.  The canoe too heavily laden.  The country in a state of combustion.  Meet with a hunting party.  State of the river, etc.  Meet with Indians.  See the tracks of bears, and one of their dens.  Sentiment of an Indian.  Junction of the Bear River.  Appearance of the country.  {iv}State of the river.  Observe a fall of timber.  Abundance of animals.  See some bears.  Come in sight of the rocky mountains.  The canoe receives an injury and is repaired.  Navigation dangerous.  Rapids and falls.  Succession of difficulties and dangers. ... 31

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