[248] This refers to attempt of Mr. Kittson to ascend the Kootenay river from the Columbia in a batteau, mentioned on pages 178-9 of this quarterly.
[249] See note 108 on page 189.
[250] Mr. John Warren Dease, Chief Trader, in charge at Spokane House during this winter.
[251] The portage mentioned in note 86, page 179, of this Quarterly.
[252] Free trappers nominally owned their horses, guns, traps and lodges, but usually were in debt to the Company for everything and obliged to turn in their furs to pay the indebtedness. The regularly employed servants were called the engages.
[253] The same as the Coeur d'Alene portage mentioned in note 117, this being Mr. Work's spelling or "Skeetshoo," the name given by David Thompson to the Coeur d'Alene lake and river and Indians.
[254] Saddle blankets, made of skins.
[255] The Indians residing along the lower Kootenay river; see note 104 on page 187.
[256] Thompson Falls, Clark's Fork river, Montana.
[257] The name still remains and is said to have its origin from numerous small fish resembling herring that were common there.