The kind treatment of all sorts and conditions of Indians in'time of sickness or famine by the Hudson's Bay officers (who never forgot that in dealing with suv: tribes courtesy is the better part of charity) did much to increase the feeling of mut confidence based upon fair dealing in matters of business. Moreover, the clerks and other servants of the Company, and even the chief factors and traders, often married Indian women, and the offspring of these mages are to be met with in every class of orth-Westumn society, at the present day.
Many of these Scotch hall-breeds (whatever the fractic of Indian blood, one fourth, one-eighth, or even less, th term f-breed" is used) have the blick blue-black hair, aquiline nese and hones chareteristie of the In-however, are as fair latter will often des false si but in vain ayeth them, When (shot), or speaks of a pair of soes " (sies), then you know that his blood is not neat Senteh, and you think it most probable 1 one his some capacity: he could The wri of the ofa During the old Tishinan pointed ish "breed" there hat "niver an Oirish half-breed at all The last: fact—undoubtedly a fact ws far the writer's observ: attributed: to the national p who would never den traction: hances with women of an inferior race, i come to an end the reason well bea very different one, "T' heard sy," he ren "that the won't ever fter which there would certi a mingling of Cana for the Before the coat it Bay and North-West Companies the former were in the habit importing Orkneymen nerve as. vayo the latter invariably mad Canadian half-breeds.
These Orkneymen, ¢ ly waterman and hard workers, w ed by the Indians account of their dour and silent m: ners; 8" that the Canadian Metis, wh possessed the gaiety and powers of conversation of their French oncosts ready enough to frater (their hal&-brothe: s in w sens") proved much more useful to their greater success in extending their trade, eventually put an end to the importation of men from the Orkneys and brought about the employment voyagers by the Hudson's Bay Ca tion." Thouzh the building of rails the use of steamers on the la "York beats" on the smaller, caused the virtual exti mn of the old-time voyagers and freighters, a fe. ever, may still be met in the country north of the Saskatchewan—a vast country untouched by settlement. So far as the writer's experience sooes Harn French half-breed and travels i ent to-day they ting and deinsing as th says that wanderer in. the "yet, when necessity compe they submit shop, not only wi with cheerful think of providing seldom lay up any serve them in any day of sickness decline of life. when they apprehend little danger, they will often, as they say, play the' man. They are very deceitful and are gross flatterers to the face of a person, whom they will basely slander behind his back. They are obedient bur not faithful variis." Of the many descendants of these those Men of the Movement" who rebelled civilisation under th leadership ud Gabrie! Clu ye something es to deal with those much aisanderstes 1870 ami 185, Most peaceably: settled where they ttle, hunting tins alittle, fires not a served the servants of "the Company.
The union of the companies in I which brought peace at last to Land on the Red River, brought case of population: for that camp had ceased inthe fur-trade, only half the number of men were required to carry the discharged employees elveted some years the prosperity woked by Nature win the followed by terrible th leading to the Is of reducing the colony to destitution, wards, however, the ood crops, and cate striven in has Kentucky throve aid mut the bit ale's paastinrese 5 andi th settlement asa base of stp for soarly all the Hudson's Bay Com posts-—un ideal ut Land Selkirk's, hich was partly realised by Sir Gi Simpson, for forty years Rape Vs _Tand,—provised mar In 1843 there were of illes in the future of w 1 were Indians or half-breeds, whans, GI Orkneymen, 49 English, and 25 x, while yy Demmark, Polat, nil the United States ench added popula. tion, certainly, and ily kept in by the Governor ant Council to whom the Hudson's Many of the all Red River settlers a to be found in the "away buck chawan (whither f-brews thed in 1870 or afterwards) and from the lips of one of these pil itself an olid buffdo-runner—the writer has gathered we of curious facts cancer: the running of the buffalo" which was the chief event of the Rel yeu. These vi frets, together with other: collected front trustworthy sources, are set down in order in the following account of the greatest hunting parties the New World has ever
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