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M A M M A L S OF N O R T H E R N C A N A D A 155
latitude 68° 30' north, and longitude 128° west) was the
principal point of investigation. It was situated on the
right bank of the Anderson River, first visited by me in
1857. The Anderson River, which disembogues itself into
FORT ANDERSON.
• In the month of March, 1865, the Reverend Emile Petitot, at
that time Pere of the Order of Mary Immaculate of the Good Hope,
Mackenzie River Roman Catholic Mission, paid a visit to Fort
Anderson, and while there made an excellent winter sketch ( subsequently
painted in water colours) of the establishment. I forwarded
the latter to the Smithsonian Institution at Washington
and Professor Baird had it reproduced in, I think, Frank Leslie's
Weekly ( 1865 or 1867), with some relative information. It was
on a much larger scale than this sketch copied from AbbS Petltot's
" Les Grands Esquimaux."
The spruce poles seen in the sketch, with their attached
branches, and sunk to the bottom of the river through holes made
in the ice soon after it set fast, formed a barrier from bank to
bank, with an open space near the centre, in which a net was
placed, and by means of which quite a large number of whitefish
and other fish were annually secured in course of the two or three
weeks " run." The other marking on the ice is that of a dog meat-hauling
and Indian winter track to the country lying across the
Anderson River to the west of the fort.
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| OCR | M A M M A L S OF N O R T H E R N C A N A D A 155 latitude 68° 30' north, and longitude 128° west) was the principal point of investigation. It was situated on the right bank of the Anderson River, first visited by me in 1857. The Anderson River, which disembogues itself into FORT ANDERSON. • In the month of March, 1865, the Reverend Emile Petitot, at that time Pere of the Order of Mary Immaculate of the Good Hope, Mackenzie River Roman Catholic Mission, paid a visit to Fort Anderson, and while there made an excellent winter sketch ( subsequently painted in water colours) of the establishment. I forwarded the latter to the Smithsonian Institution at Washington and Professor Baird had it reproduced in, I think, Frank Leslie's Weekly ( 1865 or 1867), with some relative information. It was on a much larger scale than this sketch copied from AbbS Petltot's " Les Grands Esquimaux." The spruce poles seen in the sketch, with their attached branches, and sunk to the bottom of the river through holes made in the ice soon after it set fast, formed a barrier from bank to bank, with an open space near the centre, in which a net was placed, and by means of which quite a large number of whitefish and other fish were annually secured in course of the two or three weeks " run." The other marking on the ice is that of a dog meat-hauling and Indian winter track to the country lying across the Anderson River to the west of the fort. |
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