Part 3 (omitted from the text-only and some portable reader versions) is a set of digital images of the manuscript made from photocopies provided by the Toronto Reference Library, the holder of the Nelson papers. The size of the images is reduced to make them suitable for on-line use; resolution is kept adequate for direct comparison with the transcription. An added table of contents provides links (in the hypertext versions) to sections or pages in each of the three parts. Page numbering preserves that of the manuscript for reference purposes. Certain sections of the this e-text may display poorly on some e-book readers: (1) References to World Wide Web resources may be longer than can be contained on normally formatted lines. To simplify correct copying of the references, the lines have not been split. (2) In Part 2, the line by line transcription of the handwritten manuscript, Nelson sometimes made additions or corrections increasing the number of words on a line of text. The length of the transcribed text line was increased to maintain the line correspondence between the manuscript and the e-text. The Nelson manuscript was made available courtesy of the Toronto Public Library. I would like to thank the staff of the Baldwin Room Manuscripts Collection at Toronto Reference Library for their assistance in making the material available for digitization. I would also like to express thanks to my wife, Susan O'Donovan, for the hours spent proofing text and clarifying many fine details of the language. I HEAR THE SPIRIT SPEAKING TO US [Transcription of an Objibwa song scroll] I hear the spirit speaking to us. I am going into the medicine lodge. I am taking (gathering) medicine to make me live. I give you medicine, and a lodge, also. I am flying into my lodge. The Spirit has dropped medicine from the sky where we can get it. I have the medicine in my heart. Midē Song Scroll. Collection and translation by W. H. Hoffman, 1885-1886. _The Midē´wiwin or "Grand Medicine Society" of the Ojibwa_ Project Gutenberg E-book #19368. GEORGE NELSON'S FUR TRADING WORLD [Transcriber's Note: Western North America Map: Lake Superior to Alberta] George Nelson's Postings and Employing Companies 1802/1803 Yellow River (Fort Folle Avoine), Wisconsin, XY Company (XYC) 1803/1804 Lac du Flambeau, Chippewa River, Wisconsin, XYC 1804/1805 Red River area, Manitoba, XYC / North West Company (NWC) 1805/1806 Lac du Bonnet, Manitoba, NWC 1806/1811 Dauphin River, Manitoba, NWC 1811/1812 Tête au Brochet (Jack Head), Manitoba, NWC 1813/1816 Long Lake, Ontario area, NWC 1818/1819 Tête au Brochet, Manitoba, NWC 1819/1821 Moose Lake, Manitoba, NWC / Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) 1821/1822 Cumberland House, Saskatchewan, HBC 1822/1823 Lake la Ronge, Saskatchewan, HBC