The Search for the Western Sea: The Story of the Exploration of North-western AmericaMusson book Company, limited, 1908 - 651 pages |
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Alexander ascended Assiniboine beaver Bobé branch buffalo built Button Canada Canadian canoes Cape Captain chart Chouart Churchill coast Columbia Coppermine course Crees crossed Cumberland House Deer discovered discovery distance east English Eskimo expedition exploration Fidler Forks Fort La Reine Foxe France French fur trade Gillam Governor Grand Portage Hearne Hearne's Henry Hudson Bay Hudson's Bay Company hundred Indians James Bay journal journey Kaministikwia Kellsey Kellsey's known La Vérendrye Lake Athabaska Lake Superior Lake Winnipeg land later leagues Mackenzie Mandan villages Mandans miles Missouri Montreal mouth narrative natives North West Company north-west northern overland Pacific paddled party passage passed Pond Port Nelson Prickett Radisson reached Red River returned Rocky Mountains route sailed Saskatchewan says sent ship shore side Sioux Slave Lake Split Lake strait thence Thompson tion travelled tribes Vérendrye Vérendrye's vessels voyage Western Sea westward winter Woods York Factory
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Page 224 - Ocean, the first thing which strikes us is, that, the north-east and south-east monsoons, which are found the one on the north and the other on...
Page 256 - their hand was against every man, and every man's hand was against them.
Page 482 - Here my voyages of discovery terminate. Their toils and their dangers, their solicitudes and sufferings, have not been exaggerated in my description. On the contrary, in many instances, language has failed me in the attempt to describe them. I received, however, the reward of my labours, for they were crowned with success.
Page 549 - Know hereby that this country is claimed by Great Britain as part of its Territories, and that the NW Company of Merchants from Canada, finding the Factory for this People inconvenient for them, do hereby intend to erect a Factory in this Place for the commerce of the Country around.
Page 491 - At some times, ten or twelve of both sexes may be seen fighting each other promiscuously, until at last they all fall on the floor, one upon another, some spilling rum out of a small kettle or dish which they hold in their hands, while others are throwing up what they have just drunk. To add to this uproar, a number of children, some on their mothers...
Page 26 - Carpenter told him that hee knew what belonged to his place better than himselfe, and that hee was no House Carpenter. So this passed, and the house was (after) made with much labour, but to no end.
Page 29 - Wilson bound his armes behind him. He asked them what they meant? they told him, he should know when he was in the Shallop. Now Juet, while this was a doing, came to John King into the Hold, who was provided for him, for he had got a sword of his own, and kept him at a bay, and might have killed him, but others came to helpe him: and so he came up to the Master. The Master called to the Carpenter, and told him that he was bound ; but, I heard no answere he made.
Page 549 - Alexander Ross, in his Adventures of the First Settlers on the Oregan or Columbia River, says that he was at this place on the I4th of August, 1811, when "early in the morning, what did we see waving triumphantly in the air at the confluence of the two great branches, but a British flag, hoisted in the middle of the Indian camp, planted there by Mr. Thompson as he passed, with a written paper, laying claim to the country north of the forks, as British territory.
Page 144 - ... do. They also pitch our tents, make and mend our clothing, keep us warm at night; and, in fact, there is no such thing as travelling any considerable distance, or for any length of time, in this country, without their assistance. Women...
Page 89 - Those two survived many days after the rest, and frequently went to the top of an adjacent rock and earnestly looked to the south and east, as if in expectation of some vessels coming to their relief. After continuing there a considerable time together, and nothing appearing in sight, they sat down close together and wept bitterly. At length one of the two died, and the other's strength was so far exhausted that he fell down and died also in attempting to dig a grave for his companion. The skulls...