s and beyond, 66; members of his party, 67; a man of heroic
mould, 68; leaves Finlay's fort, May 9, 1793, 69; describes Peace River,
69; difficulties in crossing the mountains, 70, 72; meets strange
Indians, 74; ascends the Parsnip River, 75; reaches its source, 75;
descends the Fraser, 77; retraces his steps, and travels overland to the
sea, 79-85; describes visit to the Coast Indians, 83; natives refer to
Vancouver's party, 85; reaches coast and paints record of his journey on
a rock, 86; the return journey, 86; trouble with the natives, 87;
reaches Peace River, 88; reaches Finlay's fort, 89; and Chipewyan, 89;
leaves the West, 89; increased reputation among partners of North West
Company, 92; withdraws from Company and sails for England, 93; publishes
his book, 94; King Bernadotte of Sweden's tribute to explorer, 95;
Napoleon has his _Voyages_ translated into French, 96, 97; friendship of
duke of Kent, 98; receives knighthood, 98; becomes head of X Y Company,
99; elected to Legislature of Lower Canada, 100; returns to Scotland,
1808, 100; opposes Selkirk's scheme, 100; his marriage, 101; his family,
101; his death, March 12, 1820, 102; compared with Selkirk, 209. =D= His
expeditions to the Arctic and Pacific, 51; his personality, 52;
parentage, 52; arrival in Canada, 53; enters fur trade, 53; in command
of Fort Chipewyan, 53; his desire to rival Samuel Hearne, 53; sets out
from Chipewyan in 1789 to explore Mackenzie River, 53; river named after
him, 53; proves futility of search for North-West Passage, 53; visits
England and, prepares himself for further discoveries, 53; returns to
the West, and leaves Chipewyan, Oct. 10, 1792, for the Pacific, 53;
ascends Peace River and crosses the mountains, 54; reaches Tacouche
Tesse (Fraser), which he supposes to be the Oregon (Columbia), 54;
difficulties and dangers of the journey, 54-55; his printed narrative
translated into French for Napoleon, 55; his burial-place, 55; his wife,
55; the legend he printed on a rock on the shores of the Pacific, 56;
results of his journey, 56. =Bib.=: _Voyages from Montreal through the
Continent of North America_, 1789 and 1793, London, 1801; trans, into
French, Paris, 1802. _See also_ his letters, in Roderick McKenzie's
_Reminiscences_ (Masson, _Bourgeois du Nord-Ouest_). For biog., _see_
Willson, _The Great Company_; Bryce, _Hudson's Bay Company_; Burpee,
_Search for the Western Sea_; Laut, _Conquest of the Great North-West_.

=Mackenzie, Don