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164 THROUGH T H E M A C K E N Z I E B A S IN
beginning of the succeeding month of A p r i l , by placing in
one or more caches ( built on and formed of large blocks of
thick ice, well protected from wolves and wolverines, the
chief robbers to be feared), some 30 or 40 miles from its
outlet in Liverpool Bay, a considerable quantity of fresh
venison. Early in March the female seals begin to bring
forth their young, and the seal then became the chief object
of chase by the Eskimos, who, as the days lengthened, moved
out seaward on the ice from their winter residences on the
coast to engage i n the interesting task of hunting seals. After
reaching the aforesaid caches, the bulk of the Eskimos would
remain i n the neighbourhood, using the meat, trapping foxes,
and killing a few reindeer, and making the usual preparations
for the summer season, until the disruption of the ice,
when many of them would ascend the river, visit the post,
and spend some days i n its immediate vicinity, and i n due
time proceed to the seashore.
When I first reached the mouth of the Anderson River,
early i n February, 1859, instead of a village, as I was led
to expect, there was but one large house inhabited by fifteen
men, women, and children, while the nearest group of huts
was, as they informed us, at too great a distance for us to
visit in the very cold and stormy weather which usually
occurs at that season, and which, indeed, prevailed during
our two days' stay there. Our party comprised one Scotchman,
one Swede, one French half- breed, and one Loucheux
Indian, with two trains or teams of three dogs each. We
found our quarters very warm and comfortable. Fort Anderson
was established in 1861, after we had made several
more winter trips to the same house, as well as to the spring
provision rendezvous on the ice, already mentioned. By the
autumn of 1865, however, several new huts were built at
intervening distances from there to within some 60 miles
from the post. This was done at my request, and their occupants
met with some success i n trapping foxes and minks,
with a few martens, i n the wooded ravines farther south. On
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| OCR | 164 THROUGH T H E M A C K E N Z I E B A S IN beginning of the succeeding month of A p r i l , by placing in one or more caches ( built on and formed of large blocks of thick ice, well protected from wolves and wolverines, the chief robbers to be feared), some 30 or 40 miles from its outlet in Liverpool Bay, a considerable quantity of fresh venison. Early in March the female seals begin to bring forth their young, and the seal then became the chief object of chase by the Eskimos, who, as the days lengthened, moved out seaward on the ice from their winter residences on the coast to engage i n the interesting task of hunting seals. After reaching the aforesaid caches, the bulk of the Eskimos would remain i n the neighbourhood, using the meat, trapping foxes, and killing a few reindeer, and making the usual preparations for the summer season, until the disruption of the ice, when many of them would ascend the river, visit the post, and spend some days i n its immediate vicinity, and i n due time proceed to the seashore. When I first reached the mouth of the Anderson River, early i n February, 1859, instead of a village, as I was led to expect, there was but one large house inhabited by fifteen men, women, and children, while the nearest group of huts was, as they informed us, at too great a distance for us to visit in the very cold and stormy weather which usually occurs at that season, and which, indeed, prevailed during our two days' stay there. Our party comprised one Scotchman, one Swede, one French half- breed, and one Loucheux Indian, with two trains or teams of three dogs each. We found our quarters very warm and comfortable. Fort Anderson was established in 1861, after we had made several more winter trips to the same house, as well as to the spring provision rendezvous on the ice, already mentioned. By the autumn of 1865, however, several new huts were built at intervening distances from there to within some 60 miles from the post. This was done at my request, and their occupants met with some success i n trapping foxes and minks, with a few martens, i n the wooded ravines farther south. On |
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