The Publications of the Champlain Society, Volume 12Champlain Society., 1915 |
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
animals appear arrived ascended Aspin Athabaska river bank Bear Beaver Birch birds Bison Brook camp Canada Canadian canoe Carrying Place Churchill river Columbia river crossed Cumberland House David Thompson descended distance Dogs feet fire fish five Forests four furr geese ground grouse guns head height Horses Hudson's Bay Company hunter hunting inches journey killed Kootanae Lake Athabaska Lake Superior land latitude length Linn Longitude Mandanes Manito meat miles Missisourie Mississippe Moose mouth Musk Rat Nahathaways Natives night North-West Company northward passed Peeagans Pine Plains Portage pounds Red Deer Red Deer river Rein Deer Reindeer lake returned rock Rocky Mountain House Saleesh Saskatchewan river shore Sieux skin snow Stone Indians stream survey tent thence trading house trading post traps tree twenty Village Wahbino weather west side westward wind winter women wood yards York Factory
Populaire passages
Pagina 331 - The battle had begun about Noon, and the Sun was not yet half down, when we perceived some of them had crawled away from their shields, and were taking to flight. The War Chief seeing this went along the line and spoke to every Chief to keep his Men ready for a charge of the whole
Pagina 448 - a blue, almost black. The altitude of this place above the level of the Ocean, by the point of boiling water is computed to be eleven thousand feet (Sir George Simpson). 1 Many reflections came on my mind ; a new world was in a manner before me, and my object was to be at the Pacific Ocean before the month of August,
Pagina 280 - and in a pure religion. Although these are the predictions of a solitary traveller unknown to the world they will surely be verified (1798). The course and length of the River Mississippe from it's scource to it's discharge into the Gulf of Mexico in Latitude 29° o
Pagina lix - no mere formula, but the sincere thanksgiving of a devout man. " Our astronomer, Mr. Thompson," wrote Dr. Bigsby, 1 " was a firm churchman ; while most of our men were Roman Catholics. Many a time have I seen these
Pagina 336 - While we have these weapons, the Snake Indians have none, but what few they sometimes take from one of our small camps which they have destroyed, and they have no Traders among them. We thus continued to advance through the fine plains to the Stag River
Pagina 180 - who passed this place in 1814 on his way east from the Columbia river, wrote of it, " This trading post had more the air of a large and well-cultivated farm, than a fur-traders' factory ; a neat and elegant mansion, built on a slight eminence, and surrounded with barns, stables, storehouses, &c., and by fields of barley, peas, oats, and potatoes.
Pagina 419 - (a trader and Hunter from the U States) and one Indian, and wounded several others. My Hunter hearing that two of his brethren were wounded, requested to go, and see them, which I readily granted, my Guide deserted and went to a distant camp for safety ; but I soon procured another : On the
Pagina 15 - the reader and myself staid a few minutes on orders, he then took Voltaire's Dictionary, and said to us, here is my belief, and I have no other. In the Autumn of 1785 he returned to England, became a member of the Bucks Club and in two years was buried :) The present Factory
Pagina 375 - at Marias river, Montana, on July 27, 1806, when Lewis killed a couple of Indians. See Thwaites (ed.). Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, New York, 1904, vol. v., pp. 223—7.
Pagina lxxviii - Carrying Place, a deep bog four miles across. He crossed this portage to a small creek that flows into the St. Louis river, and descended the latter stream to Fond du Lac House, in latitude 46° 44' 2" N., three miles up the river from Lake Superior. He reached this post on May