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Alexander Mackenzie. Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America (Vol. 1&2)
Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America (Vol. 1&2)
Table of Contents
Volume 1
Preface
A GENERAL HISTORY OF THE FUR TRADE FROM CANADA TO THE NORTH-WEST
SOME ACCOUNT OF THE KNISTENEAUX INDIANS
EXAMPLES OF THE KNISTENEAUX AND ALGONQUIN TONGUES
SOME ACCOUNT OF THE CHEPEWYAN INDIANS
EXAMPLES OF THE CHEPEWYAN TONGUE
JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE, &c
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
Volume 2
JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE &c
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
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Alexander Mackenzie
Journey to the Arctic Ocean and the Pacific in 1789 and 1793
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The people being despatched to their respective winter-quarters, the agents from Montreal, assisted by their clerks, prepare to return there, by getting the furs across the portage, and re-making them into packages of one hundred pounds weight each, to send them to Montreal; where they commonly arrive in the month of September.
The mode of living at the Grande Portage is as follows: The proprietors, clerks, guides, and interpreters, mess together, to the number of sometimes an hundred, at several tables, in one large hall, the provision consisting of bread, salt pork, beef, hams, fish, and venison, butter, peas, Indian corn, potatoes, tea, spirits, wine, etc., and plenty of milk, for which purpose several milch cows are constantly kept. The mechanics have rations of such provision, but the canoe-men, both from the North and Montreal, have no other allowance here, or in the voyage, than Indian corn and melted fat. The corn for this purpose is prepared before it leaves Detroit, by boiling it in a strong alkali, which takes off the outer husk: it is then well washed, and carefully dried upon stages, when it is fit for use. One quart of this is boiled for two hours, over a moderate fire, in a gallon of water; to which, when it has boiled a small time, are added two ounces of melted suet; this causes the corn to split, and in the time mentioned makes a pretty thick pudding. If to this is added a little salt, (but not before it is boiled, as it would interrupt the operation) it makes a wholesome, palatable food, and easy of digestion. This quantity is fully sufficient for a man's subsistence during twenty-four hours; though it is not sufficiently heartening to sustain the strength necessary for a state of active labour. The Americans call this dish hominy.5
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