Rod and gun . n-dians from Fort Albany who hadbrought in the winter supplies. Neverhas the writer seen an aboriginalcrowd more obviously pleased togreet the traveller than the Indiansin this out of the way post: they pre-sented us with fresh moose meat,they assisted us in preparing the tri-bal baking oven, the children camewith bows and arrows to entertain uswith their worksmanship, their eldersvisited our camp manifesting interestin our guns and equipment, and inmany ways evidenced their pleasurein having us about. In the afternoonwe organized athletic games and testsof strength into which yo
Rod and gun . n-dians from Fort Albany who hadbrought in the winter supplies. Neverhas the writer seen an aboriginalcrowd more obviously pleased togreet the traveller than the Indiansin this out of the way post: they pre-sented us with fresh moose meat,they assisted us in preparing the tri-bal baking oven, the children camewith bows and arrows to entertain uswith their worksmanship, their eldersvisited our camp manifesting interestin our guns and equipment, and inmany ways evidenced their pleasurein having us about. In the afternoonwe organized athletic games and testsof strength into which young and oldentered with eagerness and for twohours the fun and laughter and thespirit of the games ran high, and afterthe tugs of war and pole vaultingwere finished one of our number didsome special feats on an improvisedparallel bar. The Indians tried toduplicate the tricks upon the bar butsucceeded only in tumbling about ontne ground; finally one old boy, a 226 AND PORTAGE IN THE NORTHERN WILDERNESS. one shot beautifully placed throughthe shoulder dropped the animal inhis tracks. The skinning was onlya matter of twenty minutes and aftertaking all we wished we erected a poleon the bank beside the carcass and at-tacJied a large piece of birch to thepole, with the message in Cree thatwe were leaving the moose for ourfriends, the Albany Indians, travel-ling behind us. The banks of theKenogami are high clay cliffs denselywooded but with stunted evergreensand for several days we travelledrapidly down the widening courseaided by a steady four mile an hourcurrent and came upon the finalstretch of our northward trail, theMajestic Albany River a mile wideat this point flowing in from the southwest. For years the Albany has beenthe travelled water trail between FortAlbany on the Bay and Lake Joseph,Lac Seul and Lake Winnipeg on thewest, so we were once more uponwater which had known the whitemans canoes. Chief of Fort Albany Crees, (A Fine Old , Clean and Kindly) wrink
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