This is formed of a stone of about two pounds weight, which is sewed up in leather and made fast to a wooden handle two feet long.

In using it the stone is whirled round the handle by a warrior sitting on horseback and riding at full speed.

Every stroke which takes effect brings down a man, a horse, or a bison.

To prevent the weapon from slipping out of the hand, a string, which is tied to the handle, is also passed round the wrist of the wearer.
Alexander Henry extended his travels in the north-west within four hundred and fifty miles of Lake Athabaska.

He met at this point some Chipewayan slaves in the possession of the Assiniboins, and heard from them (1) of the Peace River in the far west which led one through the Rocky Mountains (he uses that name) to a region descending towards a great sea (the Pacific Ocean); and (2) of the Slave River which, after passing through several lakes, also reached a great sea on the north.
This, of course, was an allusion to the Mackenzie River.