Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 printed from the original manuscripts in the library of the American Philosophical Society and by direction of its committee on historical documents |
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Chapter V Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 | ||
16th. December Sunday 1804—
a clear Cold morning, the Thermtr.
at Sun rise Stood at 22°.
below 0, a verry singaler appearance of the
Moon last night,
as She appeared thro: the frosty atmispear. Mr. Henny from
the Establishment on River Ossinniboin,
with a letter from,
C. in his letter expressed a great anxiety to Serve us in any
thing in his power.[38]
* a root Discribed by Mr. Henny for the Cure of a Mad
Dog [blank in MS.—
Ed.]
Mr. LeRock a clerk, of the
NW. Company and Mr. George
Bunch a Clerk of the
Hudsons beey Compy accompanied
Mr Henry from the
village.
This
post, according to Coues (Henry's Journal, i, p. 298) was
called Fort
Montagne à la Bosse, situated on the Assiniboin about
50 miles above Mouse River.
The messenger's name appears in the L. and C.
MSS. as Henny, Henry and Haney.
His real name was Hugh Henney, a trader
for the Hudson's Bay Company. Larocque
mentions his arrival (Masson's Bourg. Nord-Ouest, i, p. 307). Mrs. E. E. Dye cites
to
the Editor from a MS. journal of a Hudson's Bay Company trader (1812–16)
the
additional fact that he was head of the Pembina and Red River (of the
North) district
as late as 1812, when he was superseded by Peter Fidler,
with whose earlier exploration
Lewis and
Clark were acquainted.—Ed.
Chapter V Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 | ||