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![]() ![]() Tracking up the Athabasca River, Alberta, 1899.
![]() It is at this point we join the Fur-Brigade of the Hudson's Bay Company making its annual transport to the posts of the Far North, taking in supplies for trading material and bringing back the peltries obtained in barter during the previous winter. The big open scows, or "sturgeon-heads," which are to form our convoy have been built, the freight is all at The Landing, but for three days the half-breed boatmen drag along the process of loading, and we get our introduction to the word which is the keynote of the Cree character, — "Kee-am," feebly translated, "Never mind," "Don't get excited," "There's plenty of time," "It's all right," "It will all come out in the wash." ![]()
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