More "miscellaneous" until I can get proper numbers for them. Or a proper place.
May 2 1817 James Bird Carlton House(Saskatchewan)
" A Southward Indian arrived from Jack Lake who informs us that a party
of Stone Indians Horse Stealers lately arrived at his Tent from the Moose
Hill where they (by their accounts) Met with Mr. Hallett and about seven
Canadians conveying on Horses Goods, Furs etc. from Moose Lake to this
River. one of whom they killed and the rest they robbed of all their
property including their Clothes and Horses. Mr. Hallett they stripped
naked and in that condition sent him back to his House at Moose Lake. Our
informant adds that there is little room to doubt the truth of the above
account as several of the Stone Indians had Handkerchiefs and other
fineries on their heads which it is not probable that they could procure in
any other way."
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Nov. 25 1815 John Peter Pruden Carlton House(Saskatchewan)
"Men employed fetching home Meat, brot home 14 Buffalo. We have now got
more than a sufficiency of Meat to serve us for the season. Since the 23rd
of October we have had killed & brot home to the House 200 Buffalo by 7
Men"...
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Nov. 6 1808 James Bird on his HBC tobacco in Edmonton Reel 1M49
"it resembles in Appearance a Bar of rusty Iron and it's Consistance may
be compared to a Decayed Cabbage Stalk"
Feb.25 1817 James Bird at Carlton House(Saskatchewan) Reel 1M19
" James Bird Jun. accompanied by two or three Indians arrived from a
large camp thirty Tents of Southward Indians who are tenting about thirty
miles from hence. At this camp James Bird saw a Canadian and a Northwest
interpreter called Nomme both from the South Branch House. Nomme had been
informing the Indians that when the snow is very nearly thawed away Mefsers
McLeod and Hughes with a number of Men are to Kill us or take us prisoners,
and take pofsefsion of this House (and all the property in it) which the
North West Company intend to occupy during the summer. where we are to be
to totally excluded from the Red River etc. etc. Such are the threats those
Scoundrels dare to hold out, but which would not deserve a moments
consideration had not similar threatenings been realized last Spring in the
dreadful events of Red River."
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April 26 1817 James Bird at Carlton House(Saskatchewan)
" A few Southward Indians arrived from the neighbourhood of the Jack Lake
(where they and the Stone Indians are afsembled determined to await any
attack that the Slave Indians may dare to make on them) These Indians
inform us that a party of young Men actually intended to go and plunder the
Canadians at Green Lake, but that they were difsuaded from carrying their
design into execution by their old Men who said " You had better not
interfere in the quarrels of the white people. You cannot know what party
will ultimately prevail, should you afsist the weaker You will not fail to
be long punished for such interference by the conquerors, whereas tho' the
party you afsist should prevail, the Services You may have rendered it will
soon be forgotten so that you may injure but cannot permanently benefit
yourselves"; Five Young Men however left their Tents about the fifteenth
instant to go and steal the Canadians Horses at lake a la Crofse. Some of
the Indians above mentioned afsured me however that, if I would send two or
three of the Officers of this place at their head, they would raise a party
and take Ogden and his Men prisoners. I did not however think it prudent to
accept of their offer at present from a consideration that such a step,
even if attended with complete succefs, would not effectually reestablish
our affairs, while the adoption of retaliative measures on our part would
not fail to render the violent proceedings for the North West Company lefs
striking lefs calculated to excite general indignation, and consequently
more unlikely to draw forth speedily on the authors of them the punishment
they so richly deserve."
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June 25 1823 Cumberland House James Leith as Master Reel 1M40
" Received from the [18] Indians that arrived yesterday 1760 Musquash, &
gave them a little Rum to drink; their conduct however during the day was
exceeding turbulent, & even made a hostile attack on myself & three men,
determined were they succefsful, to Pillage the house; in this however they
were disappointed for a good drubbing is all they got for their trouble."
June 26 1823
" Fitted out the whole of the Indians and got them off; having met one of
our Cows in the track, they out of revenge Cut off a piece of her tail."
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