The Company, as the minutes show, voted him £20 gratuity for his voyage. Why, then, did the factors cast ridicule on his report? Supposing they had accepted it, what would have been entailed? They must capture the furs of that vast inland country for their Company. To do that, there must be forts built inland. Some factor would be ordered inland. Then, there would be the dangers of French competition—very real danger in the light of that brandy incident. The factors on the bay—Norton and Isham—were not brave enough men to undertake such a campaign. It was easier sitting snugly inside the forts with a multitude of slave Indians to wait on their least want. So the trade of the interior was left to take care of itself. _Notes on Chapter XVIII._—Hendry’s Journal is in Hudson’s Bay Company’s House, London. A copy is also in the Canadian Archives. Andrew Graham of Severn has written various notes along the margin. If it had not been for Graham, it looks much as if Hendry’s Journal would have been lost to the Company. Hendry gives the distances of each day’s travel so minutely, that his course can easily be followed first to Basquia, then from Basquia to the North Saskatchewan region. Graham’s comment that Hendry was at 59° north is simply a slip. It is out of the question to accept it for the simple reason Hendry could not have gone eight hundred and ten miles _southwest_ from York, as his journal daily records, and have been within 6° of 59°. Besides his own discovery that he had been crossing branches of the Saskatchewan all the time and his account of his voyage down the Saskatchewan to the Pas, are unmistakable proofs of his whereabouts. Also he mentions the Eagle Indians repeatedly. These Indians dwelt between the north and south branches of the Saskatchewan. Whether the other rivers that he crossed were the Assiniboine or the Qu’ Appelle or the Red Deer of Lake Winnipegosis—I do not know. I had great trouble in identifying the Archithinue Indians of Hendry’s Journal till I came on Matthew Cocking’s Journal over the same ground. Dec. 1, 1772, Cocking says: “This tribe is named Powestic Athinuewuck, Waterfall Indians. There are four tribes or nations which are all Equestrian Indians, viz: (1) Mithco Athinuewuck, or Bloody Indians. (2) Koskiton Wathesitock, or Black Footed Indians. (3) Pegonow, or Muddy Water Indians. (4) Sassewuck, or Woody Country Indians.” CHAPTER XIX 1770-1800 EXTENSION OF TRADE TOWARD LABRADOR, QUEBEC AND ROCKIES—HEARNE FINDS THE ATHABASCA COUNTRY AND FOUNDS CUMBERLAND HOUSE ON THE SASKATCHEWAN—COCKING PROCEEDS TO THE BLACKFEET—HOWSE FINDS THE PASS IN ROCKIES