Identifier: onheadwatersofp00hawo (find matches)
Title: On the headwaters of Peace River : a narrative of a thousand-mile canoe trip to a little-known range of the Canadian Rockies
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Haworth, Paul Leland, 1876-1938
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Publisher: New York : Scribner
Contributing Library: ASC - York University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Ontario Council of University Libraries and Member Libraries

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, and all the game within it, and they resent thekilling of game by white men. From scattered sentenceswe gathered that they were especially displeased becausethe animal had been killed so close to the fort. How-ever, we ignored their scowling faces and blandly toldthem that if they needed meat they would find the fore-quarters of the bear on the bar below. Three or four ofthem soon embarked in a dugout and later returned withwhat remained of the bear. For once I had the pleasureof killing meat for the aborigines ! These Indians are of the Sikanni tribe, as are thoseabout Fort McLeod. In color, cast of countenance, andlack of beards, they are decidedly Asiatic in appearance—even more so than are the Redmen farther east. Ifone of them were dressed in Japanese costume and turnedloose on the streets of Tokio, only his behavior wouldbetray the disguise. The more I saw of these north-western Siwash the more inclined I became to acceptthe theory that America was first peopled from Asia by
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< •A as H enen O o< a o Ph «:< O O THE LAST OUTPOST 119 way of Behring Strait—either that or else Asia waspeopled from America, for I see no real reason why oneis not about as likely as the other. Aleck, who is a son of Chief Pierre and who is thebest hunter in the tribe, did not go with the others afterthe bear meat but remained sitting on the bank, smokinghis pipe and talking to us. I found him to be a reallysuperior Indian, speaking fair English (which most ofthe tribe cannot do), and having some idea of the worldoutside, which none of his people have ever seen. Hetold me that the spring had been very bad for hunting,and that the cold weather had held on so late that the**whistlers had been slow to fatten. He and his familyhad been up in the mountains after these animals tomake robes, and to get the fat, but had found the ani-mals so lean that they had come back to the post. At that time I had some notion of penetrating themountain range I desired to examine by way of

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