MacDonell, John. Description of Lake Athabasca and the Chipweans, ca. 1805 and Journal of a Voyage from Lachine to Fort River Qu'Appelle, 1793. An electronic transcription. MFTP #0005
Dargy, No 12 Le Grand Callumet, No 13 Allumettes, No 14 15 Les Joachins[,] No 16 La Roche Capitaine, No 17 Les deux Rivières[,] No 18 Le Troue. Those of the Little River No 1 Le plain Champs, No 2 Les Roses, No 3 Campion, No 4 La Gross Roche, No 5 Le Paresseu, No 6 La Prairie[,] No 7 La Cave, No 8 Talon, No 9 and 10 Le Musiques, No 11 La Tortue[,] No 12 13 14 Les vases[.] And the portages in the French River No 1 La Chaudiere des Français, No 2 Parisiens[,] No 3 Le Grand Recollet[,] No 4 la Petite Fausille.
18 Portages in the Ottawa
14 [portages in the] Little River & vases
4 [portages in the] French River
In all 36 portages to the entrance of Lake Huron and there are besides, these about an equal number of Décharges[.]
In the evening of the 27th in spite of the fellows conjuring the wind abated, and according to Mr Jos: Frobishers written instructions to Mr A.N. McLeod we lightened the guide's canoe of forty four peices, which were distributed among the other canoes and shipped all Mr McLeod, Lemoine, and my effects on board of it and took a man out of each of the other canoes which made us a crew of fourteen paddles and set out on our journey leaving the brigade to wait the arrival of Dannis our associate guide whom we had not seen
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