The Remarkable History of the Hudson's Bay Company Including that of the French Traders of North-Western Canada and of the North-West, XY, and Astor Fur Companies

CHAPTER XIX.

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THE LORDS OF THE LAKES AND FORESTS.--II.

Harmon and his book--An honest man--"Straight as an arrow"--New views--An uncouth giant--"Gaelic, English, French, and Indian oaths"--McDonnell, "Le Prêtre"--St. Andrew's Day--"Fathoms of tobacco"--Down the Assiniboine--An entertaining journal--A good editor--A too frank trader--"Gun fire ten yards away"--Herds of buffalo--Packs and pemmican--"The fourth Gospel"--Drowning of Henry--"The weather cleared up"--Lost for forty days--"Cheepe," the corpse--Larocque and the Mandans--McKenzie and his half-breed children 166