n Pacific coast, 189.
=MS= Joins North West Company, 7; opposes Selkirk's plans, 7, 146, 151,
159, 167; his death, 8; born 1763 at Stornoway, Island of Lewis,
Scotland, 10; parentage, 10; education, 10; emigrates to Canada, 1779,
10; enters fur trade and joins opposition to McTavish, 10, 11; his
keenness and daring, 11; leads trading expedition to Detroit, 11; at
Grand Portage, 1785, 12; becomes a _bourgeois_, 12; assigned to English
River department, 14; friendly relations with officers of rival North
West Company, 15; goes to Athabaska, 17; his administrative ability, 17,
18; plans for expansion, 18; sends Leroux to build post on Great Slave
Lake, 18; and Boyer to build one on Peace River, 19; describes life of
fur trader, 22; his ambitious designs for discovery, 22; unpopular with
McTavish, 23; hears of a great river in the north, 31; preparation for
his journey, 32; his narrative, 32; his party, 33; sets out June 3,
1789, from Fort Chipewyan, 33; reaches Great Slave Lake, 35; meets
Yellow Knife Indians, 36; enters Mackenzie River, 37; meets Slave and
Dog-Rib Indians, 28; their account of the river, 38; passes mouth of
Great Bear River, 28, 47; meets Hare Indians, 39; and Quarrellers, 39;
enters the delta, 39; lands on Whale Island, at mouth of the river, 40;
erects post with inscription, 40; uncertainty as to his having reached
the sea, 43, 61; the return journey, 43; coal seam on fire, 47;
difficulties with "English Chief," 45, 46, 48; returns to Great Slave
Lake, 48; meets Leroux, 48-49; reaches Chipewyan, Sept. 12, 1789, 50;
results of the journey, 50-51; establishes existence and course of
Yukon, 50-51; his treatment of natives, 51; his account of fauna, 51;
his character, 51-52, 59; winters at Chipewyan, 53; unfriendliness of
partners of Company, 53; his project for a journey to the West, 53; goes
down to Grand Portage, 53; cool reception there, 54; returns to
Chipewyan, 54; his letters, 54; meets Philip Turner, 57; his share in
North West Company, 58; goes to England to acquire instruction and
instruments for his second journey, 59; returns to Athabaska, 61;
preparations for journey to the Pacific, 61; sends men to Peace River to
cut timber for a post, 61; leaves Chipewyan, Oct. 10, 1792, 61; ascends
Peace River, passes the falls and Boyer's "Old Establishment," and
reaches Finlay's fort, 62; his method of dealing with the Indians,
62-63; winters at the forks, 63-65; Chinook winds, 65; sets out for the
mountain