CHAPTER V. 1
RETURN FROM FORT AUGUSTUS TO THE MISSION.
Good Governor RoWand --Occupations of two months - Visits Lake St. Anne-Impatient to get away in spring- Northward by dog sled for nine days--. The Athabasca country - A Catholic Indian with a large family-Fort jasper and Colin Fraser-They all go out for meat-Mount De Smet-Terrific scenery-A mountain of ice--. lkfects the Hudson Bay Company's brigade-Old friends-Takes to snowshoes- Extreme suffering and exhaustion-The bright side of it-Comes to the Columbia anda feast-Down the river-Tragedies -Geography -Reaches Fort Colville-Father Nobili in New Caledonia.
Fort Jasper, 2 April 16, 1846.
Afonsc,yneur:
ORT EDMONTO' or Augustus is the great emporium of the Hudson Bay Company in the districts of upper Saskatchewan and Athabasca: Forts Jasper, Assiniboin, Little gave Lake, on the river Athabasca, Forts des Montagnes, Pitt, Carrollton, Cumberland, on the Saskatchewan, depend on it. The respectable and worthy Mr. Rowans Governor of this immense district, unites to all the amiable
This chapter follows the English text of the Oregon Nisjionz, and comprises Letters XIV, XV, XVI and XVfI of that work (Letters X111, XIV, XV and XV1, Misions de Wr,`gtoo, published as letters to Bishop Hughes and to the Provincial of Alissouri. Reverend J. C. Van de Velde, and dated as by footnotes inserted at the proper places.
2jasper 1-louse or Jasper's house; a trading-post built about I and said to have been named curiously for jasper Bowes or House, clerk in charge.
3 Probably John Rowand, who entered the service of the Northwest Company in cites; or perhaps his son, Doctor Rowand, called "of Quebec," who was born at Fort Edmonton, educated abroad, and 'who accompanied Sir George Simpson, in his tour around the world in z84i, from Edmonton as far as flonolulu. See letters from Rowand, p. r56r.