The National geographic magazine . ed that day was the Kananaskis,and that it was two sleeps to theKootenai, bj^ which they mean thePalliser River or any stream on theother side of the divide. The Stonies,so far as I have been able to find out,have no local names for anything exceptthe great passes, and these names they^have adopted more or less from thewhite man. That we had covered theequivalent of three dajs travel in elevenhours shows how rapidly we had trav-eled. I tried to get some information fromthe most intelligent of the 3oung bucks,but without much success. They saidthere was a lake
The National geographic magazine . ed that day was the Kananaskis,and that it was two sleeps to theKootenai, bj^ which they mean thePalliser River or any stream on theother side of the divide. The Stonies,so far as I have been able to find out,have no local names for anything exceptthe great passes, and these names they^have adopted more or less from thewhite man. That we had covered theequivalent of three dajs travel in elevenhours shows how rapidly we had trav-eled. I tried to get some information fromthe most intelligent of the 3oung bucks,but without much success. They saidthere was a lake a mile or two long inthe next valley to the south, the headof the Elk, which we had not knew of the high pass which wehad crossed on August 12, and expressedthe greatest surprise that we had gottenour horses over it. The Indians weredisgusted that wTe had shot no game,and that we were at the Stony term they apply only to the longlower lake, which is full of fish, and Exploration in the Canadian Rockies 195;. Photo by Wilcox Storm on Kananaskis Lake said we could have the other, which hasnone, but is far more beautiful. Thereis no beauty or grandeur in the moun-tains for them, where they suffer coldand privation only to fill their fleshpots. The next morning about 9 oclock thewhole troop filed by our camp, whichwas placed almost on the trail. Therewere about twenty or thirty Indiansand about fifty horses in their oldest men came first, then theyoung bucks. Later came the squaws,many of whom had papooses strappedon their backs or placed in the saddle j ust behind the high Mexican little child, not four years old, wasfastened in a kind of basket on a gentlepony and allowed to shift for of the bucks said, Good morn-ing, or saluted in some way, but mostof the women looked straight ahead ras though we were not visible. Theyounger girls were evidently embar-rassed, but the old squaws made re-marks and were interested in our t
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