. A journey from Prince of Wales's Fort, in Hudson's Bay, to the northern ocean [microform] : undertaken by order of the Hudson's Bay Company for the discovery of copper mines, a north west passage, &c. in the years 1769, 1770, 1771 & 1772. Indians of North America; Natural history; Indiens; Sciences naturelles. I i i A JOURNEY TO THE make them very troublefome. And if a Governor deny them any thing which they alk, though it be only to give away to the moft vvorthlefs of their gang, they imir medi- ately turn fulky and impertinent to the higheft degree; and however rational they may be
. A journey from Prince of Wales's Fort, in Hudson's Bay, to the northern ocean [microform] : undertaken by order of the Hudson's Bay Company for the discovery of copper mines, a north west passage, &c. in the years 1769, 1770, 1771 & 1772. Indians of North America; Natural history; Indiens; Sciences naturelles. I i i A JOURNEY TO THE make them very troublefome. And if a Governor deny them any thing which they alk, though it be only to give away to the moft vvorthlefs of their gang, they imir medi- ately turn fulky and impertinent to the higheft degree; and however rational they may be at other times> are im- mediately diverted of every degree of reafon, and raife their demands to fo exorbitant a pitch, that after they hav^e received to the amount of five times the value of all the furrs they themfelves have brought, they never ceafe begging during their ftay at the Fadory ; and, after all, few of them go away thoroi^hly fatisfied *. After * As a proof of this afTcrtion I take the liberty, though a little foreign to the narrative of ray journey, to infert one inftance, out of many hundred's of the kind that happen at the different FaAories in Hudfon's Bay, but perhaps no where fo frequently as at Giurchill. In Oftober 1776, my old guide, Ma- tonabbee, came at the head of a large gang of Northern Indians, to trade at Prince of Wales's Fort; at which time I had the honour to command it. When the ufual ceremonies had pafled, I dreflTed him out m a Captain of the firft rank, and alfo clothed his fix wives from top to toe: after which, that is to fay, during his ftay at the Fadory, which was ten days, he begged feven lieutenants' coats, fifteen common coats, eighteen hats, eighteen ftiirts, eight gunsi one hundred and forty pounda weight of gunpowder, with ihot, ball, and flints in proportion i together with many hatchets, ice-rhi(Ieb, files, bayo- nets, knives, and a great quantity of tobacco, clothe blankets, combs, looking- gbfles, ftockings, handkerchief!)
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