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T H E T R I P T O W A H P O O S K O W 143
was to the habitation of another half- breed family at the
foot of Sandy Lake, themselves and everything about them
orderly, clean and neat; the very opposites of the curious
household we had visited the day before. They had a great
kettle of fish on the fire, which we bought, and had our
dinner there; being especially pleased to note that their
dogs were not starved, but were fat and well handled. At
the east side of the lake we were delayed trying to catch
ponies to make the portage, failing which we got over otherwise
by dark, and camped again on the Pelican River. That
night there was a keen frost, and ice formed along shore, but
the weather was delightfully crisp and clear, and we reached
Pelican Landing on the 9th, finding there our old scow
and the trackers, with our friend Cyr i n command, and
Marchand, our congenial cook, awaiting us.
On the 11th we set off for Athabasca Landing, accompanied
by a little fleet of trippers' and traders' canoes, and
passed during the day immense banks of shale, the tracki
n g being very bad and the water still high. We noted much
good timber standing on heavy soil, and on the 14th passed
a curious hump- like h i l l , cut- faced, with a reddish and yellow
cinder- like look, as i f i t had been calcined by underlying
fires. Near it was an exposure of deep coloured ochre, and,
farther on, enormous black cut- banks, also suggestive of coal.
The C a l l i n g R i v e r — " Kitoosepe "—- was one of our points
of distribution, and upon reaching it we found the river
benches covered w i t h tepees, and a crowd of half- breeds from
C a l l i n g Lake awaiting us. After the declarations and scrip
payments were concluded, we took stock of the surroundings,
which consisted, so far as numbers went, mainly of dogs.
Nearly all of them looked very miserable, and one starveling
bitch, with a litter of pups, seemed to live upon air. It
was p i t i f u l to see the forlorn brutes so cruelly abused; but
i t has been the fate of this poor mongrel friend of humanity
from the first. The canine gentry fare better than many a
man, but the outcasts of the slums and camps feel the stroke
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| OCR | T H E T R I P T O W A H P O O S K O W 143 was to the habitation of another half- breed family at the foot of Sandy Lake, themselves and everything about them orderly, clean and neat; the very opposites of the curious household we had visited the day before. They had a great kettle of fish on the fire, which we bought, and had our dinner there; being especially pleased to note that their dogs were not starved, but were fat and well handled. At the east side of the lake we were delayed trying to catch ponies to make the portage, failing which we got over otherwise by dark, and camped again on the Pelican River. That night there was a keen frost, and ice formed along shore, but the weather was delightfully crisp and clear, and we reached Pelican Landing on the 9th, finding there our old scow and the trackers, with our friend Cyr i n command, and Marchand, our congenial cook, awaiting us. On the 11th we set off for Athabasca Landing, accompanied by a little fleet of trippers' and traders' canoes, and passed during the day immense banks of shale, the tracki n g being very bad and the water still high. We noted much good timber standing on heavy soil, and on the 14th passed a curious hump- like h i l l , cut- faced, with a reddish and yellow cinder- like look, as i f i t had been calcined by underlying fires. Near it was an exposure of deep coloured ochre, and, farther on, enormous black cut- banks, also suggestive of coal. The C a l l i n g R i v e r — " Kitoosepe "—- was one of our points of distribution, and upon reaching it we found the river benches covered w i t h tepees, and a crowd of half- breeds from C a l l i n g Lake awaiting us. After the declarations and scrip payments were concluded, we took stock of the surroundings, which consisted, so far as numbers went, mainly of dogs. Nearly all of them looked very miserable, and one starveling bitch, with a litter of pups, seemed to live upon air. It was p i t i f u l to see the forlorn brutes so cruelly abused; but i t has been the fate of this poor mongrel friend of humanity from the first. The canine gentry fare better than many a man, but the outcasts of the slums and camps feel the stroke |
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