In the latter denomination, Father Giroux told me, the proportion of Indians and half-breeds, including those of the first lake, was about equal.

The latter, he said, raised potatoes, but little else, and lived like the Indians, by fishing and hunting, especially by the former, as they had to go far now for fur and large game.
The Hudson's Bay Company had built a post near Mr.Weaver's Mission, and there was a free-trader also close by, named Johnston, whose brother, a fine-looking native missionary, assisted at an interesting service we attended in the Mission church, conducted in Cree and English, the voices in the Cree hymns being very soft and sweet.

Mr.Ladoucere was also near with his trading-stock, so that business, it was feared, would be overdone.

But we issued an unexpectedly large number of scrip certificates here, and the price being run up by competition, a great deal of trade followed.
Wahpooskow is certainly a wonderful region for fish, particularly the whitefish and its cousin-german, the tullabee.

They are not got freely in winter in the first lake, but are taken in large numbers in the second, where they throng at that season.