The American Museum journal (c1900-(1918)) (18133047286)

Title: The American Museum journal

Identifier: americanmuseumjo09amer (find matches)

Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)

Authors: American Museum of Natural History

Subjects: Natural history

Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History

Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library

Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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AN ETHNOLOGICAL TRIP TO LAKE ATHABASCA 11 lial parts of a Northland traveler's equipment, a mosquito bar for pro- tection at night and a netting for day use. After leaving Edmonton two days' stage journey found me at Athabasca Landing, the last post office and the head of the Arctic inland water-route/ Here, I joined Captain Kelly of the Hudson's Bay Company, who was prepared to start down stream with a fleet of seven scows bearing the yearly provisions for all the Company's northern trading posts. Each boat was manned by several oarsmen, who rowed after the fashion of the old Roman o-allev-slaves, rising; from their seats at each stroke, and by a steersman who manipulated a heavy sweep. For several days

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THE "GRAHAME ON LAKE ATHABASCA, we alternately rowed and drifted down the Athabasca River, our half- breed crew whiling away leisiu'e time with a hand-game similar to our "button, l)utton, who's got the button." By the 19th of ^Nlay we were only a short distance above the Grand Rapids of the Athabasca, and, owing to the extreme shallowness of the water and the numerous rocks in the river-bed, the oarsmen were obliged to punt instead of row. At the Grand Rapids, the river is divided into two channels by an island nearly a half mile long. The ' Dr. Lowie's route may be traced by studying the map on page 102 of the Journal for November, 1908.

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