. Through the Mackenzie Basin : a narrative of the Athabasca and Peace River Treaty Expedition of 1899 . Treaty Camp at Lesser Slave Lake. Indian Tepees TKEATY AT LESSER SLAVE LAKE 53 took place, and we were speedily surrounded by a bustlingcrowd, putting up trading tents and shacks, dancing booths,eating-places, etc., so that with the motley crowd, includinga large number of women and children, and a swarm of dogssuch as we never dreamt of, amounting in a short space byconstant accessions to over a thousand, we were in the heartof life and movement and noise. Mr. Ross, as already stated, had
. Through the Mackenzie Basin : a narrative of the Athabasca and Peace River Treaty Expedition of 1899 . Treaty Camp at Lesser Slave Lake. Indian Tepees TKEATY AT LESSER SLAVE LAKE 53 took place, and we were speedily surrounded by a bustlingcrowd, putting up trading tents and shacks, dancing booths,eating-places, etc., so that with the motley crowd, includinga large number of women and children, and a swarm of dogssuch as we never dreamt of, amounting in a short space byconstant accessions to over a thousand, we were in the heartof life and movement and noise. Mr. Ross, as already stated, had gone on by trail fromEdmonton, partly in order to inspect it, and managed toreach the lake before us, which was fortunate, since Indiansand half-breeds had collected in large numbers, and he wasthus able to allay their irritation and to distribute rationspending the arrival of the other members of the Commis-sion. During the previous winter, upon the circulation in theNorth of the news of the coming treaty, discussion was rife,and every cabin and tepee rang with argument. The wiseacrewas not absent, of course, and agitators had been
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