. On snow-shoes to the barren grounds [microform] : twenty-eight miles after musk-oxen and wood-bison. Hunting; Chasse. 314 ON TO THK I'.AUUKN (lUOUNDS M I. which at this season enjoy a short lioh'day. A woman can handle about two hundred fish a day by steady, quick work. We were not the only arrivals at the island, for many a canoe blew in loaded with Indians and their families and goods and chattels on the way to the post for the spring trade. Again I witnessed ev- idence of woman being the country's beast of burden. The men on landing went off to join other men in smoking their
. On snow-shoes to the barren grounds [microform] : twenty-eight miles after musk-oxen and wood-bison. Hunting; Chasse. 314 ON TO THK I'.AUUKN (lUOUNDS M I. which at this season enjoy a short lioh'day. A woman can handle about two hundred fish a day by steady, quick work. We were not the only arrivals at the island, for many a canoe blew in loaded with Indians and their families and goods and chattels on the way to the post for the spring trade. Again I witnessed ev- idence of woman being the country's beast of burden. The men on landing went off to join other men in smoking their pipes, while the women, loaded down like pack-mules, "^^^^ .rti'^''*' .*" climbed the steep and rocky banks, and pitched the lodges and lighted the fires and cooked the suppers for their luxuriant lords and masters. 1 noticed one Indian woman toiling up the bank with a baby slung on her back in ad- dition to her pack. The storm from which we had sought refuge increased that night, and it was Sunday before we .again got under way, and Sunday night when we had finally crossed the lake and gotten into ..Vthabasca River. Six days of hard work brought us to another Sunday and to Red River, thirty-five miles from McMurray, where the men were to rest a day, for the way had been long and the work steady from five in the morning until half after seven, and, often, much later. Once in a while we had been favored with wind and had sailed, and sometimes, when the banks would permit of it, the boat had been "; Hut I did not care to lay in camp at Red River with McMurray only thirty-five miles away, and offered Fran- '.. 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 resemble the original Whitney, Caspar, 1862?-1929. New York : Harper
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