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114 THROUGH T H E MACKENZIE BASIN
partners, after a voyage by water and land of over 5,500
miles. Franklin spent part of the winter at Cumberland
post, which had been founded to counteract the rivalry of
Montreal. " Before that time," he says, " the natives took
their furs to Hudson's Bay, or sold to the French Canadian
traders, who," he adds, " visited this part of the country as
early as 1697." If so, the credit for the discovery of the
Saskatchewan has been wrongly - given to the Chevalier, as
he was called, a son of Varenne, Sieur de la Varendrye.
Franklin left Cumberland in January, 1820, by dog train
for Chipewyan, rin Fort Carlton and Green Lake. Fort
Carlton was the great food supply post, then and long afterwards,
of the Hudson's Bay Company, buffalo and wapiti
boiiifr very abundant. The North- West Company's fort,
called La Montee, was three miles beyond Carlton, and
harbored seventy French Canadians and sixty women and
children, who consumed seven hundred pounds of meat
daily, the ration being eight pounds. This post was at that
time in charge of Mr. Hallett, a forebear, if I mistake not,
of my old friend, William Hallett, leader of the English
Plain Hunt, and a distinguished loyalist in the rebellion of
lKfi!).
Franklin and Back left Fort Carlton on the 8th February,
and reached Green Lake on the 17th. The North-
West Company's post at the lake was managed by Dugald
Cameron, and that of the Hudson's Bay Company by a
Mr. MacFarlane, and, having been equipped at both posts
with carioles, sledges and provisions, they left " under a
fusillade from the half- breed women." From the end of the
lake they followed for a short distance a small river, then
" crossed the woods to Beaver River, and proceeding along
it, passed the mouths of two rivers, the latter of which,
they were told, was a channel by which the Indians go to
Lesser Slave Lake." On the 11th of March they reached
Met by Lake— so called from an unwholesome fish of the burbot
species found there, only the liver of which is fit to eat—
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| OCR | 114 THROUGH T H E MACKENZIE BASIN partners, after a voyage by water and land of over 5,500 miles. Franklin spent part of the winter at Cumberland post, which had been founded to counteract the rivalry of Montreal. " Before that time," he says, " the natives took their furs to Hudson's Bay, or sold to the French Canadian traders, who," he adds, " visited this part of the country as early as 1697." If so, the credit for the discovery of the Saskatchewan has been wrongly - given to the Chevalier, as he was called, a son of Varenne, Sieur de la Varendrye. Franklin left Cumberland in January, 1820, by dog train for Chipewyan, rin Fort Carlton and Green Lake. Fort Carlton was the great food supply post, then and long afterwards, of the Hudson's Bay Company, buffalo and wapiti boiiifr very abundant. The North- West Company's fort, called La Montee, was three miles beyond Carlton, and harbored seventy French Canadians and sixty women and children, who consumed seven hundred pounds of meat daily, the ration being eight pounds. This post was at that time in charge of Mr. Hallett, a forebear, if I mistake not, of my old friend, William Hallett, leader of the English Plain Hunt, and a distinguished loyalist in the rebellion of lKfi!). Franklin and Back left Fort Carlton on the 8th February, and reached Green Lake on the 17th. The North- West Company's post at the lake was managed by Dugald Cameron, and that of the Hudson's Bay Company by a Mr. MacFarlane, and, having been equipped at both posts with carioles, sledges and provisions, they left " under a fusillade from the half- breed women." From the end of the lake they followed for a short distance a small river, then " crossed the woods to Beaver River, and proceeding along it, passed the mouths of two rivers, the latter of which, they were told, was a channel by which the Indians go to Lesser Slave Lake." On the 11th of March they reached Met by Lake— so called from an unwholesome fish of the burbot species found there, only the liver of which is fit to eat— |
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