New Light on the Early History of the Greater Northwest, Vol. 2 of 3: The Manuscript Journals of Alexander Henry and of David Thompson 1799-1814, Exploration and Adventure Among the Indians on the Red, Saskatchewan, Missouri and Columbia Rivers

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Monday, Aug. 8th, 1808. Dispatched the Lac la Pluie Indians, and at eight o’clock embarked in my small boat, bidding adieu to Panbian river. I took three men with me. My lading consisted merely of my baggage and some dried provisions. I found some Indians opposite Grand Marais; stopped to give them a pipe of tobacco and bid them farewell.
At Riviere aux Marais I stopped at another camp for the same purpose, and then pushed on. Those Indians, with whom I had associated for so many years, appeared really affected at my departure. We camped near Plumb river. 9th. Before day we were on the water. At Riviere aux Gratias we put ashore for a short time at another camp, and then proceeded. At the Long Reach we found more Indians, to whom I gave some tobacco; they would have loaded us with moose and red deer meat. Camped at Rat river. l0th. At sunset we arrived at the Forks, where I found a camp of Indians, and Delorme, a freeman [note, p. 193]. 11th. Hoisted sail, and about two miles below Seine river met a canoe coming up for me with the two men I had sent to Bas de la Riviere.
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