. A biological investigation of the Athabaska-Mackenzie region. Zoology. 72 NORTH AMERICAN FAUNA. [no. 27. and returned to Fort Good Hope by an overland march to Hareskin River and by descending that stream. In the summer of 18G0, the Hudson's Bay Company having decided to establish a post on the Anderson, MacFarlane made another trip to that river for the purpose of setting a party to work preparing lumber for the construction of the buildings. On this occasion he followed a new route, "leaving the Mackenzie a few miles below the site of old Fort Good Hope and pursuing a general easterly
. A biological investigation of the Athabaska-Mackenzie region. Zoology. 72 NORTH AMERICAN FAUNA. [no. 27. and returned to Fort Good Hope by an overland march to Hareskin River and by descending that stream. In the summer of 18G0, the Hudson's Bay Company having decided to establish a post on the Anderson, MacFarlane made another trip to that river for the purpose of setting a party to work preparing lumber for the construction of the buildings. On this occasion he followed a new route, "leaving the Mackenzie a few miles below the site of old Fort Good Hope and pursuing a general easterly course through several lakes connected by portages of varying lengths to a stream (named by him the Onion River), a tributary of the Lockhart. Descending the Lockhart to the Anderson, he found suitable timber on the Anderson River 10 miles above this junction. A temporary establishment was erected at this place, called by him ' Shantyville,'. Fig. 4.—Fort Anderson, Anderson River (from sketch by Emile Petitot, March, 1865). and several men were left to prepare lumber, while MacFarlane re- turned to Fort Good Hope by practically the same route followed on his outward trip. Subsequently this new route was abandoned in favor of the earlier one, explored in 1857. In May, 1861, MacFarlane returned to the Anderson, and on the breaking up of the ice rafted the lumber down to the proposed site, on the right bank of the Anderson, approximately in latitude 68° 35", where the post was built during the summer (fig. 4). No natural his- tory work was done that season, but in the succeeding summer col- lecting was begun in earnest, and was continued, mainly during the summer seasons, until the post was abandoned in the summer of 1866. In addition to MacFarlane's personal collections many speci-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly
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