McKenzie, James. Some Account of the King's Posts, the Labrador Coast, and the Island of Anticosti by an Indian Trader Residing there Several Years with a Description of the Natives and the Journal of a trip through those Countries in 1808 by the Same Person. An electronic transcription. MFTP #0017
A Journal of a Jaunt through the Kings Domains, Mingan Seignory &c. in the Summer of 1808.
Having been advised for the Benefit of my health after a serious Illness at Quebec to go and breath the purer Country air – and being at the same time willing to acquit myself of the Duty imposed upon me by the North West Company to manage their affairs on the Kings Posts and Mingan Seignory I set out on a Tour of these Posts in a large birch Canoe with four men on the 29th of July.
The wind and Tide being strong against us we were forced to put on shore on the North of the Island of Orleans eight leagues below Quebec where a North east Gale detained us three days. The Inhabitants seeing our tent & Canoe from a distance took us for Micmacs and kept aloof as they stood in great awe of those savages who it seemed were in the habit of committing Depredations among them.
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