Should his work contribute, in any degree, to awaken the sympathy of the Christian world in behalf of the wretched and degraded Aborigines of this vast territory; should it tend in any way to expose, or to reform the abuses in the management of the Hudson's Bay Company, or to render its monopoly less injurious to the natives than hitherto it has been; the writer's labour will have been amply compensated. Interested as he still is in that Company, with a considerable stake depending on its returns, it can scarcely be supposed that he has any intention, wantonly or unnecessarily, to injure its interests.

I enter the Hudson's Bay Company's Service--Padre Gibert

Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory — Part 2

On Service--Lake of Two Mountains--Opposition--Indians--Amusements at the Posts

Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory — Part 2

Portage des Chats--Tactics of our Opponents--Treachery of an Iroquois--Fierce yet ludicrous nature of the Opposition

Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory — Part 2

Arrival at the Chats--Installed as Bourgeois--First Trading Excursion--Bivouac in the Woods--Indian Barbarity

Trip to Fort Coulonge--Mr. Godin--Natives

Superseded--Feelings on the Occasion--More Opposition--Æ. Macdonell--Tactics--Melancholy Death of an Indian

Activity of our Opponents--Violent Conduct of an Indian--Narrow Escape--Artifice--Trip to Indian's Lodge--Stupidity of Interpreter

Expedition to the Bear's Den--Passage through the Swamp--Cunning of the Indians--A Scuffle--Its Results

Père Duchamp--Mr. S.'s Instructions--Unsuccessful--Trading Excursion--Difficulties of the Journey--Lose our way--Provisions fail--Reach the Post--Visit to an Algonquin Chief--His abusive Treatment--Success

Success of the Iroquois Traders--Appointed to the Charge of the Chats--Canadian disputes Possession--Bivouac without a Fire--Ruse to baffle my Opponents--Roman Catholic Bigotry

Journey to Montreal--Appointment to Lac de Sable--Advantages of this Post--Its Difficulties--Governor's flattering Letter--Return from Montreal--Lost in the Woods--Sufferings--Escape

Narrowly escape Drowning--Accident to Indian Guide--Am nearly Frozen to Death--Misunderstanding between Algonquins and Iroquois--Massacre at Hannah Bay

Fall through the Ice--Dangerous Adventure at a Rapid--Opponents give in--Ordered to Lachine--Treatment on my Arrival--Manners, Habits, and Superstitions of the Indians--Ferocious Revenge of a supposed Injury--Different Methods of the Roman Catholic and Protestant Missionary--Indian Councils--Tradition of the Flood--Beaver Hunting--Language