drummond

(masteraudio: 'stopall') <==> (t8n:'dissolve')[<style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/full_title.png'>] =><= (t8n:'dissolve')+(t8n-delay:1s)+(text-color:grey)+(text-size:0.75)[//Recollection of T. Drummond’s Adventures in Canada, 1825-27.//] (t8n:'dissolve')+(t8n-delay:2s)[ [[New game|Start]] [[Encyclopedia]] [[Gallery]] [[Credits]]] (t8n:'dissolve')+(t8n-delay:3s)+(text-size:0.75)[ [(or try a chapter below) |= (text-style:"condense")[[[Prologue|Start]]] =|= [[I|1.0]] =|= [[II|2.0.2]] =|= [[III|3.0]] =| (text-style:"condense")[[[Epilogue|end]]] |==| ]] </div> (t8n:'dissolve')+(t8n-delay:4s)+(text-size:0.8)[Created by ©Su Liu, 2023] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bg1.jpg'))

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=><= (text-style:"bold","tall")[Exsiccatae] <==> |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drummond-namer_books.jpg'> =| <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/vol1-cover.jpg'> |==| =><= Access the moss specimens from Drummond's journey. </div> //[[Sphagnum squarrosum]] [[Sphagnum acutifolium]] [[Gymnostomum heimii]] [[Gymnostomum pusillum]] [[Splachnum rubrum]] [[Splachnum luteum]] [[Systylium splachnoides]] [[Weissia seligeri]] [[Orthotrichum obtusifolium]] [[Neckera menziesii]] [[Bryum triquetrum]] [[Bryum schleicheri]] // </div> <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/div-1.png'> </div> (text-style:"bold","tall")[Characters] </div> <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drum.png'> =|| </div> </div> </div> (link-repeat: "Thomas Drummond")[(open-url: 'http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/drummond_thomas_6E.html')] </div> |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/hunter.png'> =|| </div> </div> </div> (link-repeat: "Native American Employees")[(open-url: "https://www.nps.gov/articles/iroquoiscreefortvancouver.htm")] </div> |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/ric1.png'> =|| </div> </div> </div> (link-repeat: "John Richardson")[(open-url: "http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/richardson_john_9E.html")] </div> |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/frank1.png'> =|| </div> </div> </div> (link-repeat: "John Franklin")[(open-url: "http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/franklin_john_7E.html")] </div> |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/millan1.png'> =|| </div> </div> </div> (link-repeat: "James McMillan")[(open-url: "https://www.electricscotland.com/history/canada/vol2/glengarry8.pdf")] </div> |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/don1.png'> =|| </div> </div> </div> (link-repeat: "Finnan McDonald")[(open-url: "https://www.historylink.org/File/9668")] </div> |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/row.png'> =|| </div> </div> </div> (link-repeat: "John Rowand")[(open-url: "http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/rowand_john_8E.html")] </div> |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/back1.png'> =|| </div> </div> </div> (link-repeat: "George Back")[(open-url: "https://www.gallery.ca/magazine/your-collection/portrait-of-an-explorer-artist-george-back")] </div> |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/ken2.png'> =|| </div> </div> </div> (link-repeat: "Edward Nicholas Kendall")[(open-url: "http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/kendall_edward_nicholas_7E.html")] </div> |==| <== (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bg1.jpg'))

=><= No. 4 ''//Sphagnum Acutifolium//'' <==> </div> <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src=https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/sphagnum_acutifolium.jpg> <== A peat moss used by the Native Americans to swaddle young children. Its high water absorbency made it an excellent material for diapers; and by maintaining low pH around the wound, //Sphagnum// mosses could also be used as antibacterial bandages. <== (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bg1.jpg'))

{(track: 'snow', 'loop', true) (track: 'snow', 'playwhenpossible')} =><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map0]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== Snow had buried the entrance of our tent during the time we hid there. What it could not bury was the cry of a woman, and that of a new-born. Yet the cry was diminishing. Not a good sign. We stumbled through the thick snow, wondering why nobody cared to clean it up. But then it occurred to me that we were no longer with the tribe, but sent away to escort a British. Then the cry burst out again. This time it was Joseph’s. The husband. The hunter. My brother-in-law. I had never seen him so devastated, like a wounded, growling beast. =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|pro2]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/snow.png'))

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=><= (text-style:"superscript")[ |== [[Map|map0]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== We carried the bodies of my sister and the infant, leaving a crimson trail on the snowy earth. Eventually, we had to hide in the tent from the blizzard. In the bright corner of the tent was the British scientist, trying to warm up by the fire: ''Thomas Drummond'', a Scotsman, possibly in his thirties, was keen on his natural research, even willing to separate from the brigade… Or perhaps, unwillingly. Seeing the bloody mess, he seemed to be panicking just like us, at last. =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|pro5]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/snow.png'))

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(if: (history:) does not contain "Start" and (history:) does not contain "1.0" and (history:) does not contain "2.0.1" and (history:) does not contain "2.0.2" and (history:) does not contain "3.0")[(alert:"This game includes ambience and sound effects. You can adjust the volume / mute on the left sidebar in the game.")] (masteraudio: 'stopall') =><= </div> (text-size:2)+(t8n:'dissolve')[III Homeward] </div> =><= (text-size:0.8)+(t8n:'dissolve')+(t8n-delay:1s) [//The naturalist dreamed. He counted sheep, yet a new species. The Rocky Mountain Sheep. Horns of a ram and hair of a moose, Thicker than the thickest varieties he knew Back home.//] =><= (t8n:'dissolve')+(t8n-delay:2.5s)[[[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|3.1]] (text-size:0.8)[(Click the pointer to proceed.)]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bg1.jpg'))

=><= </div> (text-size:2)+(t8n:'dissolve')[Epilogue] </div> (t8n:'dissolve')+(t8n-delay:1.5s)[Thomas Drummond had also collected a great number of specimens of birds and mammals.] (t8n:'dissolve')+(t8n-delay:3s)[Together with his collection of plants, the mosses give us a significant insight into North America's unique natural history in the early 19th century, and continue to help us monitor climate change today.] (t8n:'dissolve')+(t8n-delay:4.5s)[His exsiccatae, or specimen books of the 286 mosses, were titled Musci Americani in two volumes.] (t8n:'dissolve')+(t8n-delay:6s)[In 1830, he set out again to Texas, sending hundreds of new specimens back home, and once suffered severely from cholera.] (t8n:'dissolve')+(t8n-delay:7.5s)[He died upon arriving in Havana in 1835.] (t8n:'dissolve')+(t8n-delay:9s)[In 1945, Amgueddfa Cymru bought Drummond’s exsiccatae from Dr. Margaret Paterson.] (t8n:'dissolve')+(t8n-delay:10.5s)[They are now archived at National Museum Cardiff.] </div> (t8n:'dissolve')+(t8n-delay:12s)[(text-colour:grey)[//'…the whole of the continent of North America has not been known to possess so many Mosses as Mr. Drummond has detected in this single journey.'// </div> ==> Sir W. J. Hooker, 1830] =><= (if:(history:) contains '3.67')[[[''The End''|Credits]]] (else:)[[[''The End''|Title]]]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (if: (history:) does not contain '3.67')[(enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bg1.jpg'))] (else:)[(enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/home.png'))]

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=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map0]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drum.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> Alas! I will wait while you rest. But please remember that we need to get to (link-style:(text-style:"underline"))[(link-repeat: 'Little Smoky')[(dialog: "Little Smoky River: An extension of, or alternatively identified as the Smoky/Smoking River, which branches westward from the Athabaska River. Try finding it in the 'Map' tab!")]]. (text-size:0.8)+(text-colour:grey)[//(Click on the coloured/underlined text to inspect.)//] </div> |==| =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|pro11]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/snow.png'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map0]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== Unintentionally, I’d believe, Drummond gave his signature smile, but soon enough he realised the situation was too dire for a smile that he restrained. He removed a damp page from a set of mosses, then started to think in deep silence. |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drum.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> Essentially, I hunt like you folks do. But instead of using it for myself, I’m teaching others how to use it. And you can teach me. I know these mosses are tiny, you probably wouldn’t even notice them. But they are all God’s (link-style:(text-style:"underline"))[(link-repeat: 'gift')[(dialog: "At present, we can monitor climate change according to their rarity and location, comparing them with all the old mosses on record. A gift, indeed.")]]. You’ll be surprised how different these mosses are from those in Europe. </div> |==| =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|pro18]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/snow.png'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map0]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drum2.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> It has been most helpful to have you folks here. If not for your efforts, I wouldn’t have been able to collect all these specimens. </div> |==| On the word ‘specimens’, there was a glow in his eyes, erasing his past dullness from the cold weather. The acuteness of vision I had once seen was back. |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drumhappy.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> They will fill the gaps of knowledge, in this part of nature that you live with, in this exotic land, which I find quite spectacular! </div> |==| =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|pro19]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/snow.png'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map0]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== As Joseph turned to complete the rituals, Drummond carefully took out his paper again and added a note to //[[Sphagnum acutifolium]]//. He was whispering to himself to focus. |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drum.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> And… ‘used by the natives’… Noted. Hmm. He’s right. These plants do remind me of things. Now, the previous one was… //[[Sphagnum squarrosum]]// – ‘about Cumberland House’, hmm. I did find them there… </div> |==| =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'> End of Prologue|1.0]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/snow.png'))

=><= No. 3 ''//Sphagnum squarrosum//'' <==> </div> <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src=https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/sphagnum_squarrosum1.jpg> <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src=https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/sphagnum_squarrosum2.jpg> <== A shaggy peat moss that grows in damp regions. See also //[[Sphagnum acutifolium]]//. <== (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bg1.jpg'))

=><= No. 224 ''//Bryum triquetrum//'' <==> </div> <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src=https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bryum_triquetrum.jpg> <== A //Bryum// species with very long capsule stalks. Before Drummond found it in Canada, Dr. Scott had found it on the borders of a lake in the north of Ireland (see Dr. Hooker’s 1818 //Muscologia britannica//). //Bryum// is considered the largest genus of mosses. <== (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bg1.jpg'))

(track: 'footsteps', 'play') {(track: 'hall', 'loop', true) (track: 'hall', 'playwhenpossible')} (if: (history:) contains "pro1" or (history:) contains "3.1")+(if: (history:) does not contain "1.1")[(alert:"Your map has been updated.")] =><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== Having landed in New York and travelled for months, we had at last arrived at Cumberland House. |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/frank1.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> This is only the beginning, gentlemen. Now is a good time to set out. We shall move as soon as the (link-style:(text-style:"underline"))[(link-repeat: 'pemmican')[(dialog: "An indigenous pressed cake made with dried meat, sometimes also dried berries. It was a popular premade survival food for European traders in North America.")]] is ready… …Why, don’t be silly. It’s the Arctic we’re heading to. You’ll catch your death of cold! </div> |==| A burst of gentle laughter, clatter, followed by the silence of army discipline. As I followed Dr. Richardson into the hall, Sir Franklin, our courageous Captain, was making his morning speech. He was quite right. Long summer days make an expedition easier. This was his second expedition to the Land Arctic. =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|1.2]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bg1.jpg'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== I was no soldier, however, but an assistant naturalist. I, Drummond, Thomas, under the command of Captain Sir John Franklin, would take my leave from here to the Rocky Mountains after they set out for the Arctic. =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|1.3]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bg1.jpg'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/ric1.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> I’m glad you are aware that we have a long way to go, just make sure you don’t forget breakfast. Quite familiar with the surroundings lately, are you not? </div> |==| =><= (text-size:0.9)+(text-colour:grey)[//Choice-making: options do not affect the story, but will provide different experiences. Click 'Back' anytime to explore another option.//] <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drum.png'> =|| </div> </div> </div> [[1. Aye, anytime for excursion.|1.5.1]] [[2. Not entirely. Please enlighten me.|1.5.2]] </div> |==| (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bg1.jpg'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/ric1.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> You’ll eventually find out. The country around here is marshy. Rather flat as well, so this should be a good place to start. The land about Cumberland is primarily limestone. Explains how the swamp developed in the lower grounds as well. </div> |==| |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drum2.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> Thank you, sir. I’m quite ready for another excursion. It’s an honour to work with you. </div> |==| =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|1.6]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bg1.jpg'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drum2.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> Sorry for not labelling it already. This is a //[[Bryum triquetrum]]//, needs to be blotted… I found loads of them in the swamps nearby. The limestone here reminds me of that back in Lake Winnipeg, I believe. </div> |==| |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/ric1.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> That moss looks beautifully pressed. Indeed, we have encountered such a landscape near Lake Winnipeg. </div> |==| =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|1.6]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bg1.jpg'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/ric1.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> I wish we could talk more. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to pack up before Sir Franklin starts looking for me. I will write, so you can hear from us when you pass a (link-style:(text-style:"underline"))[(link-repeat: 'portage')[(dialog: "Back in those days, if one cannot pass a river, he might use a portage (a path on land) to carry his boat/cargo around the waters.")]] or something. (text-style:"buoy")[''Safe travels!''] </div> |==| =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|1.9]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bg1.jpg'))

(masteraudio: 'stopall') (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/old-ge205f1724_1280.jpg')) =><= </div> December 1825 </div> ''Assinaboyne River'' </div> [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|1.10]]

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== There was a familiar figure in the void... |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/frankshade.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> …(text-style:"smear")[expedition]. A marvellous event to demonstrate one’s power… …we are on the frontier. </div> |==| =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer3.png'>|2.0.1.2]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:white))

(if: (history:) contains "pro1" or (history:) contains "1.0" or (history:) contains "2.0.1" or (history:) contains "2.0.2")+(if: (history:) does not contain "3.1")[(alert:"Your map has been updated.")] =><= </div> March 1827 </div> ''Leaving Edmonton House'' </div> =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|3.2]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bg1.jpg'))

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{(track: 'snow', 'loop', true) (track: 'snow', 'playwhenpossible')} =><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== It had been a while since my sister’s funeral. Joseph and I were the only ones left with Drummond, who still seemed unbelievably indefatigable with his excursions. I barely recognised Joseph anymore. He was so depressed to collect plants for the past month that we hadn't worked much. =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|1.11]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/snow.png'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== Drummond found a new plant and asked for assistance. He looked closer at Joseph, as though about to wake him up. It might not seem that way then, but we were the most skilled hunters in the tribe. We were //needed//. =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|1.13]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/snow.png'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== Joseph returned a cold look. |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/jo1.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> We have //names//, Mr. Drummond. Surely you wouldn’t want me to call you Mr. Britain. </div> |==| =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|1.14]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/snow.png'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/jo1.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> *(Grunts)* Those company bastards never read our ‘tribal’ names correctly. So yes, ‘Joseph Iroquois’ at your service. </div> |==| =||= ==> </div> </div> </div> And fun fact, my name wasn’t ‘Baptiste’. </div> =|= ==> <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bap1.png'> |==| |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/jo1.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> Don’t bother, _________. They’re not going to put you in their history book. </div> |==| =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|1.16]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/snow.png'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drum.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> You can tell me anytime. Though… you may have to bear with my poor language skills. But for now, we wouldn’t want to lose our breath walking on top of this… </div> |==| He took another heavy step into the snow. It only grew thicker as we advanced. Where were we heading again? Ah yes, the Smoking River. ~~Or Little Smoky, whatever he called it.~~ |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drum.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> Was it the Smoking River that you folks called it? </div> |==| =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|1.17]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/snow.png'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== He was right. There were a few times I spent my winter somewhere outside the mountains, though it may not be what the company men would expect. I grabbed Drummond’s map. <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/minimap1.png'> <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bap1.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> We’re here at the head of Assinaboyne River. If we avoid the mountains... to the east, there should be a stream that falls into the Red Deer River. </div> |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drum2.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> Not bad at all, Mister… Baptiste. That's a good location. Sixty miles from the Rocky Mountains, I'd assume. </div> |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drumhappy.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> We shall call it the (link-style:(text-style:"underline"))[(link-repeat: 'Baptiste River')[(dialog: "The ‘Baptiste’ River was identified as a stream falling into Red Deer River. Since there are two different Red Deer Rivers we assume it would have been the one closer to the Rocky Mountains. It is occasionally referred to as Berland River, a branch of Athabasca River which is near, yet probably over the mountains.")]]! Let’s get moving, shall we? </div> |==| =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|1.25]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/snow.png'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== As I mounted the horse that carried Mr. Drummond’s specimens, Joseph whispered to me. |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/jo1.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> Can’t believe he’s still so energetic. What is this man made of? </div> |==| |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bap1.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> I don’t know, brother. Just hoping that our (link-style:(text-style:"underline"))[(link-repeat: 'dzögä́:ö')[(dialog: "The Little People that guard our home, Awakening the beasts, the woods, the Pleasant beings, harm them not. Begone, invisible foes, The Jo-gä-oh keeps us safe and sound. ")]] understands. </div> |==| =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|1.26]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/snow.png'))

<==> </div> <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/map1.png'> (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bg1.jpg'))

<==> </div> <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/map2.png'> (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bg1.jpg'))

(masteraudio: 'stopall') (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/old-ge205f1724_1280.jpg')) =><= </div> 1 January 1826 </div> ''‘Baptiste River’'' </div> [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|1.27]]

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== Perhaps due to our longing for a rest, we managed to reach my winter spot before long. Thankfully, the sky turned clear as Mr. Drummond started building a hut with white spruce – the initial tents were too damaged by the blizzard. Sitting down by the river I gazed – I had been observing the stars for the past month on our way here. But Mr. Drummond’s ‘I see (link-style:(text-style:"underline"))[(link-repeat: '//Charles’s Wain//')[(dialog: "Now more often known as the Plough or the Big Dipper, a group of seven bright stars. <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/38836718054_5b3893dcba_c.jpg'>")]]' put me off quite often. What did that even mean? Apparently, he overlooked how we worshipped the stars. The moment after he said that, he buried his face back in his collection. Even here, he collected mosses while mumbling to himself, ‘sandstone rocks of Baptiste River.’ The labels of those mosses said //[[Weissia seligeri]]// and //[[Gymnostomum pusillum]]// respectively. =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|1.28]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/stars.png'))

=><= No. 66 ''//Weissia seligeri//'' <==> </div> <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src=https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/weissia_seligeri1.jpg> <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src=https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/weissia_seligeri2.jpg> <== A delicate moss in a light green colour, with linear leaves. <== (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bg1.jpg'))

=><= No. 22 ''//Gymnostomum pusillum//'' <==> </div> <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src=https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/gymnostomum_pusillum1.jpg> <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src=https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/gymnostomum_pusillum2.jpg> <== Can be found on chalky cliffs. <== (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bg1.jpg'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bap1.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> I have to say I dislike the way you misjudge the stars, Mr. Drummond. </div> |==| ==> =||= </div> </div> </div> Would you mind being more specific? </div> |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drum.png'> |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bap1.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> And that tone of yours... But I’m afraid that’s the way you company men talk. </div> |==| =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|1.29]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/stars.png'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== The web of stars illustrated a motherly face. She smiled upon us. |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drum2.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> Charles's Wain is a set of stars, too! </div> |==| He pointed to the north, at the seven stars on the side of the motherly face. =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|1.32]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/stars.png'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== I looked at Joseph, who had just made another fire. |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bap1.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> I don’t. I hunt and botanise on a daily basis. Well, not as much of a perfectionist as you are. But we do it for a living for our entire lives. </div> |==| =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|1.35]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/stars.png'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drum.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> I’ve done it for a very long period of my life, too. I will never forget the time when my brother James showed me his specimens. Insects, birds, wild flowers, mammals. And, of course, the mosses. Always been the right chemistry for me. When I realised I was going to the Rocky Mountains, I was the most thrilled. Although, things did not work out entirely the way I expected. </div> |==| Mr. Drummond pressed a moss carefully. The //[[Neckera menziesii]]//, he said, was a curiosity from the Rocky Mountains. =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|1.36]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/stars.png'))

=><= No. 162 ''//Neckera menziesii//'' <==> </div> <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src=https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/neckera_menziesii.jpg> <== Also grows on wood. <== (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bg1.jpg'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/img1.png'> <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drum.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> My typical morning would start with their boat stopping for breakfast. The men would leave the boat whilst I made excursions as quickly as I could. Those men could set out anytime soon. </div> |==| =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|1.39]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/stars.png'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/img2.png'> <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drum.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> It was late summer, so I had to prevent my plants from drying out, by keeping them moist in my vasculum. But that is merely a temporary solution. I had to press the plants for better preservation. </div> |==| =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|1.40]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/stars.png'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/img3.png'> <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drum.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> Then I would join them again for the night. Long nights, I would say, since the plants needed to be identified and properly treated. </div> |==| =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|1.41]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/stars.png'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drum.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> I worked until daybreak, when I would board the boat with the men, and sleep until breakfast, and so forth... all the way across the Rocky Mountains to the Columbia River. </div> |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drum2.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> You know, I’ve been very excited to hear from Sir Franklin and Dr. Richardson about their natural discoveries along the strait. Oh, speaking of them… </div> |==| =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|1.42]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/stars.png'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== Mr. Drummond took out another page of moss. |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drum2.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> This, //[[Bryum schleicheri]]// – I suppose that’s the name – was named by Dr. Hooker. He recommended me for this expedition, for which I am eternally grateful. Hopefully I haven’t failed them… The thing is, the brigade was going quite fast. It would take much effort to observe all the peculiar plants during that fine summer. It has been an unusual trip so far. I’m happy to have collected lots on the plains and prairies, though! </div> |==| =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|1.43]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/stars.png'))

=><= No. 264 ''//Bryum schleicheri//'' <==> </div> <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src=https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bryum_schleicheri.jpg> <== //‘I suppose that’s the name?’ // Now known as //Ptychostomum schleicheri//. Grows on soil, rocks and stream banks. //Bryum// is considered the largest genus of mosses. <== (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bg1.jpg'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== I had rarely seen a man this talkative, even in the face of danger and death. He definitely didn’t look talkative, but he never stopped when speaking of his science. I wondered if he was a soldier, or a military agent. But the company men said he was merely a scientist. For the first time, his science felt less like a stranger to me. Just as I was starting to feel good about the rest of our journey, however, the stars once again left us untended. =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|1.44]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/stars.png'))

(masteraudio: 'stopall') (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/old-ge205f1724_1280.jpg')) =><= </div> 10 January 1826 </div> ''Wintering by the ‘Baptiste River’'' </div> [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|1.45]]

{(track: 'snow', 'loop', true) (track: 'snow', 'playwhenpossible')} =><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== My nightmare began in the late afternoon when I found our young horses dying. They had been in great pain, breathing anxiously into the frosted air. There was nothing much I could do – the only word that stuck in my head was //death//. Death once more. The snow was two feet deep. When we attempted to walk near the river, my nose felt oddly moist. =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|1.46]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/snow.png'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bap1.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> Wouldn’t you suggest we stop for a while? </div> |==| ==> =||= </div> </div> </div> We should get going soon, but… </div> |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drum.png'> |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bapangry.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> I can’t watch our horses dying and my brother-in-law swinging himself like a mad man, while you just carry on as if it’s an easy job. </div> |==| =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|1.54]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/snow.png'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bapangry.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> Besides, the animals here are running away. We’ll starve to death before we even pass the winter. I hope the rain will make hunting easier. Brother, we have to try hunting. </div> |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/joangry.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> ...my wife's dead! I'm not your brother. </div> |==| There was a loud, ridiculous stomach growl. <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/jo1.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> ...Ugh, whatever. </div> |==| =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|1.56]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/snow.png'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bapangry.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> We will be back. </div> |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/jo1.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> No, we won’t. </div> |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bapangry.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> I will. </div> |==| Just so that Mr. Drummond could let us go once he was satisfied. But would he //ever// be satisfied? =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|1.60]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/snow.png'))

(masteraudio: 'stopall') =><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| =><= </div> March 1826 </div> [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|1.61]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/snow.png'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== The rising snow had never caught my attention so badly. They never seemed to melt a single bit. When I returned to Mr. Drummond, even //he// looked frustrated all of a sudden. |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bap1.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> Are you alright? </div> |==| =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|1.62]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/snow.png'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drumshocked.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> Oh! Thank goodness you’re back, Baptiste. </div> |==| As soon as I landed, he dug into the pouch on my horse, looking for something. <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drum2.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> All books are well… Thank goodness. You have… You have no idea what it was like to… It was punishment for my sin, to be left with no books to read… </div> |==| =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|1.63]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/snow.png'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bapangry.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> There is no ‘spring’. To us, it’s either summer or winter. The snow is five feet tall and only getting thicker. Are you not scared that it will drown us? </div> |==| ==> =||= </div> </div> </div> Why, if it were a river, I’d swim across it. </div> |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drum.png'> |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bapangry.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> Not for our horses, Mr. Drummond. </div> |==| ==> =||= </div> </div> </div> You are the horse expert. I should agree, then. </div> |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drum2.png'> |==| =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|1.70]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/snow.png'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== //It’s not just the horses that died.// I whispered to myself… |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bap1.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> [[>1. //I miss my tribe. A lot.//|1.70.1]] [[>2. //I'll keep Mr. Drummond safe. For now.//|1.70.2]] </div> |==| (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/snow.png'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== I thought, now that I had prepared what Mr. Drummond needed, I should have been free to go. It wasn’t that I disliked taking care of the horses, but on my way back to the river, I felt as though I had lost everything, even my soul. |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bap1.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> Mr. Drummond. I’m afraid I cannot stay any longer. </div> |==| =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|1.70.1.1]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/snow.png'))

(masteraudio: 'stopall') =><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== There was some sort of power lying in between those pages he had been botanising with. Joseph had his hands on them, too. I wanted to quit, but I couldn’t. I sat down next to him by the river, which he named after me. We spent another three months through the cold winter, with Mr. Drummond constantly looking for potential specimens. The snow was, at a time, exceptionally tall, almost six feet. <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/div-1.png'> It wasn’t until April that the snow stopped thickening. That was when Mr. Drummond decided to travel to Jasper House, hoping to hear from his colleagues. With great luck, I’d say, we made it on foot, stopping in the middle at the Portage. =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|1.70.2.1]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/snow.png'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| ==> =||= </div> </div> </div> If you insist, fine. This isn’t your game, after all. Any plans when you get home? </div> |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drum.png'> |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bap1.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> I’ll practise hunting and foraging. You? </div> |==| I didn’t expect myself to ask that last question. ==> =||= </div> </div> </div> I’ll head to Jasper House. Mr. MacMillan, your employer, will be there to bring my luggage, from Edmonton House. </div> |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drum.png'> |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bap1.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> Oh well, glad I decided not to go with you, then. </div> |==| I was relieved. Although I hadn’t obeyed my contract in full, I felt this would be a better end for me. </div> =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>''End of Chapter I''|2.0.1]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/snow.png'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/frankshade.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> …why, I thought you’d understand. I was merely being polite. </div> |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/frank1.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> Though I am a nature enthusiast myself, I am now a Captain, on behalf of the Empire. And you, shall be the assistant naturalist of the frontier. </div> |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drum.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> [[> God save the King.|2.0.1.5]] [[> God save the King.|2.0.1.5]] [[> God save the King.|2.0.1.5]] </div> |==| (enchant:?page,(text-colour:white))

(masteraudio: 'stopall') =><= </div> 9 April 1826 </div> ''Upon arrival at Jasper House'' </div> [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|2.0.1.6]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bg1.jpg'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== I woke up, still feeling rather surreal, knowing that I had just survived the first winter in the wilderness of Canada. Having left Baptiste, I proceeded to the Portage in the snow. It was difficult to move until April. That was the longest route – 150 to 200 miles, I assume – that I had ever walked in my snow shoes, chunky, not in any sense comfy. =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|2.0.1.7]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bg1.jpg'))

{(track: 'hall', 'loop', true) (track: 'hall', 'playwhenpossible')} =><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/millan1.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> Mr. Drummond! Good to see you again. </div> |==| Upon arriving at Jasper House in early April, Mr. James McMillan welcomed me kindly. =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|2.0.1.8]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bg1.jpg'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drum2.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> Very much, sir, thank you. </div> |==| As I warmed up by the fire, I thought that this would be my first large step towards my second year of the expedition - I had being longing to return to the Rocky Mountains.. <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drum.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> And thank you very much for the hunters you sent me. They have been the best guides. </div> |==| =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|2.0.1.11]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bg1.jpg'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/millan1.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> Never mind the deal-breakers. Good news is, our fur brigade will be returning from the Columbia River. You’re welcome to meet up with them, and they can tour you around the mountains for the summer. </div> |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drumhappy.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> Ah! That would be very helpful. </div> |==| =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|2.0.1.18]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bg1.jpg'))

(masteraudio: 'stopall') {(track: 'forest', 'loop', true) (track: 'forest', 'playwhenpossible')} =><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== In a fresh sense of excitement, I prepared for excursions near Jasper and Upper House. The usual fur trade route would be through Jasper Lake into the mountains, while the alternative route was going 50-something miles up the Athabaska River, via Upper House. I decided to encamp around, hoping to spot the brigade anytime soon. Late spring near this vicinity was pleasant with lots to offer, though two of the mosses I found were scarcely seen – //[[Splachnum rubrum]]// and //[[Splachnum luteum]]//. <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/div-1.png'> On the 6th of May, the Brigade found my encampment, and we set out on horseback. Still, there was a reason why I addressed them ‘the fur brigade’, for they had been quite fur-oriented, on behalf of Hudson’s Bay Company. =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|2.1]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/forest.png'))

=><= No. 32 ''//Splachnum rubrum//'' <==> </div> <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src=https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/splachnum_rubrum.jpg> <== //‘…two of the largest and finest mosses that are known, the //Splachnum rubrum// and //S. luteum//.’ // A red dung moss that grows on animal dung. <== (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bg1.jpg'))

=><= No. 33 ''//Splachnum luteum//'' <==> </div> <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src=https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/splachnum_luteum.jpg> <== //‘…two of the largest and finest mosses that are known, the //Splachnum rubrum// and //S. luteum//.’ // A yellow collar moss that grows on moose dung. <== (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bg1.jpg'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== The moss in this narrow open glade just ahead was shimmering in the daylight. I believed I had found a treasure. I dug in the soil, bit by bit, to collect it without damaging the whole moss. Then I could see more in detail. The colours of its reflection in the humid weather. The shape of it. <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drum2.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> How magnificent. </div> |==| I believe it was called (link-style:(text-style:"underline"))[(link-repeat: '//Jungermannia//')[(dialog: "In his Sketches of the Rocky Mountains (p197), Drummond mentions the genus '//Jungermannia//' but does not specify the species. He says: ‘My adventure with the bear did not, however, prevent my accomplishing the collecting of the Jungermannia. It is No. 17 of the “American Mosses.”’ However, this description does not match with specimen No.17 in //Musci Americani//, which is a moss, //Gymnostomum ovatum//. //Jungermannia// are liverworts rather than mosses, but used to be known by the common name ‘Scale-Mosses’. ")]], which was made No. 17 of my American moss collection. =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|2.3]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/forest.png'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/frankshade.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> …why, I thought you’d understand. I was merely being polite. </div> |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/frank1.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> Though I am a nature enthusiast myself, I am now a Captain, on behalf of the Empire. And you, shall be the assistant naturalist of the frontier. </div> |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drum.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> [[> God save the King.|2.0.2.5]] [[> God save the King.|2.0.2.5]] [[> God save the King.|2.0.2.5]] </div> |==| (enchant:?page,(text-colour:white))

(masteraudio: 'stopall') =><= </div> 6 May 1826 </div> ''The vicinity of the Upper House'' </div> [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|2.0.2.6]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bg1.jpg'))

(masteraudio: 'stopall') {(track: 'forest', 'loop', true) (track: 'forest', 'playwhenpossible')} =><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== I woke up, still feeling rather surreal, knowing that I had just survived my first winter in the wilderness of Canada. <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drum2.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> Almost there, summer days. </div> |==| Having said goodbye to Baptiste and Mr. MacMillan, I carried out excursions while camping out, hoping to spot the fur brigade on their way back. Late spring near this vicinity was pleasant with lots to offer, though two of the mosses I found were scarcely seen – //[[Splachnum rubrum]]// and //[[Splachnum luteum]]//. <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/div-1.png'> On the 6th of May, the Brigade found my encampment, and we set out on horseback. Still, there was a reason why I addressed them ‘the fur brigade’, for they had been quite fur-oriented, on behalf of Hudson’s Bay Company. =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|2.1]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/forest.png'))

{(track: 'hall', 'loop', true) (track: 'hall', 'playwhenpossible')} =><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drum.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> Greetings, officer… I was hoping to receive some letters from Captain Franklin… Or Dr. Richardson…. Anything from home? …Is that it? …Thank you. </div> |==| After a brief chat we set out again. To ease my mind a bit, we finally reached Jasper House. Mr. Drummond said that was his longest trip in his snow shoes. Almost two hundred miles of walking in a week. =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|1.70.2.2]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bg1.jpg'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== As we went in, we were welcomed by the warm fireplace. A minute later, Mr. Drummond came back to me. I didn’t even notice he left. |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drum2.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> Mr. MacMillan, I wanted to thank you for introducing us. Baptiste has done a fairly great job. </div> |==| I looked up. It was the man who employed us at Hudson’s Bay Company. |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drum2.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> Baptiste has been a brave guide in horrific situations. You would not have believed what happened… </div> |==| =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|1.70.2.3]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bg1.jpg'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/millan1.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> Indeed, yes, as they should! Mr. Drummond, why not try some tea I’ve brought from Edmonton House? That will warm you up. </div> |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drum2.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> Uh, of course. Thank you. </div> |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/millan1.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> Sugar? </div> |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drum.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> By all means. </div> |==| =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|1.70.2.4]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bg1.jpg'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/img5.png'> //No more contract. // I left without any concerns for Mr. Drummond. |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bap1.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> Bon voyage, sir. </div> |==| </div> =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'> ''End of Chapter I''|2.0.2]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bg1.jpg'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| ==> =||= </div> </div> </div> I understand it has been painful for him. One could be swayed by the loss of family. Perhaps I should have let him leave earlier for good. </div> |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drum.png'> |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bapangry.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> I wish I were as positive as you, Mr. Drummond. </div> |==| ==> =||= </div> </div> </div> Don’t worry. Spring should approach soon. </div> |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drum.png'> |==| =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|1.69]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/snow.png'))

(masteraudio: 'stopall') (track: 'bearyell', 'playwhenpossible') =><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== During my brief joy, I heard one of the most intimidating sounds of nature right behind me. I turned around to see the gigantic, brown haired creature growling at me, so much that one would not dare to cover his ears. =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|2.4]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/forest.png'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== I got startled by… a grizzly bear, but most of all, a fierce mother bear! It was rare to see them early in this season. It seemed that they were tired of the long winter and decided to take a stroll as well as I. ~~I suppose I had been quite unlucky in these rare cases.~~ The invincible barrier stood on her back feet, with her two young cubs, staring at me as a dangerous warning. I felt I had intruded on her territory. <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drum.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> Shhh... </div> |==| I attempted to calm her down, but apparently my apology was not accepted. =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|2.6]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/forest.png'))

(masteraudio: 'stopall') (track: 'bear', 'playwhenpossible') =><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== The bear constantly struck towards me, rolling about with the cubs a dozen times, which in fact made her even more formidable, as if she were a rumbling wagon that could crush me anytime. At first she was two or three yards from me, but she kept approaching, back and forth, trying to protect her cubs, until I was trapped by her in the horrifying distance of a gun. …A gun! Aye, my gun! As the bear tumbled to the other side for her cubs, I took out my gun and tried to aim at her. =><= (set:$gunshot to (random:1,10)) ''> Chance to fire!''(click:"> Chance to fire!")[(if:$gunshot>7)[(alert:"Check succeeded!")(go-to:"2.7.2")] (else:)[(alert:"Check failed!")(go-to:"2.7.1")]] (text-colour: grey)+(text-size:0.8)[(Roll check - 30% success rate)] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/forest.png'))

(masteraudio: 'stopall') (track: 'gun', 'playwhenpossible') =><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== On firing the gun, the bear growled along with the loud bang. She turned her head around, as if startled by the sound of danger, and fled from me with her cubs. |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drumhappy.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> ''HA!'' </div> |==| =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|2.7.2.1]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/forest.png'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== The gun barrels seemed to be clogged. |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drumshocked.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> *(whispers)* Not now! </div> |==| I had literally just shot ducks with the gun that morning, but it had been so humid that the powder was too damp to be fired. I had no choice but to hold myself still, trying not to annoy the bear further. Grabbing the butt end of the gun, I waited for a chance to knock her out. Wishful thinking. I could see it clearer… Not the mosses or anything, just the claws and pads of a raged bear’s paw. =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|2.7.1.1]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/forest.png'))

(masteraudio: 'stopall') (track: 'dog', 'playwhenpossible') =><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== Then I heard the snarls of dogs. It was the brigade, closing the distance at a furious speed. The horseman dismounted with his gun in his hand, followed by his brigade and several hunters, most of whom were armed with guns. |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drum.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> Hang on… I didn’t fire this, then? </div> |==| Checking my gun, I realised the gun powder was too damp to be fired. The loud gunshot was a pleasant coincidence, caused by the brigade's horseman. =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|2.8]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/forest.png'))

(masteraudio: 'stopall') =><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/horse.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> Still able to walk, Mr. Drummond? </div> |==| =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|2.9]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/forest.png'))

(masteraudio: 'stopall') (track: 'dog', 'playwhenpossible') =><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== But then the paw stopped mid-air. I heard dogs barking. It was the brigade! The bear was intimidated by the group of men with firearms, and immediately escaped with her cubs. =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|2.7.1.2]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/forest.png'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/horse.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> You shouldn’t have left us too far behind. </div> |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drum.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> If only you could spare me some more time to move around, I wouldn’t have. </div> |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/horse.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> We don’t have time for that. We’re an unstoppable brigade. </div> |==| =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|2.11]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/forest.png'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== While he was talking, I managed to gather the //Jungermannia//. I had decided to take good care of my gun in the future – although some time later I realised I could have just rattled my vasculum to scare the beasts off. =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|2.12]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/forest.png'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| </div> 17 May 1826 </div> ''Jasper House'' </div> =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|2.13]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bg1.jpg'))

(masteraudio: 'stopall') =><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| </div> June 1826 </div> ''Lac-la-Pierre, 60 miles north from Jasper House'' </div> =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|2.21]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bg1.jpg'))

{(track: 'rapid', 'loop', true) (track: 'rapid', 'playwhenpossible')} =><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== When the brigade was resting at Jasper House, I continued with excursions. This time, I had to hire some local boatmen from the brigade, because the water was rising now that the snow had melted a great deal. |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/boat.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> You surely are in bad luck. This river had been dry for nine months, and now it’s flooding. Perhaps the Little People do not want you here. </div> |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drum.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> Please tell them I’m sorry. </div> |==| =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|2.22]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/jasper.png'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== The three boatmen carried me on a skin canoe, all the way through the torrent. I could tell they were born for boating. |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/boat.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> Hey sir, you’ve left something! </div> |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drum2.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> Oh, thank you. </div> |==| It was //[[Systylium splachnoides]]//, a moss collected from the summits. I would not have imagined losing it. As I put it back in my bag, I noticed the way the boatmen looked at me. I suppose someone obsessed with paper and collecting plants from their daily life looked odd to them. I was immediately reminded of Joseph and Baptiste when we first met. I wondered if they were doing well back home. =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|2.23]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/jasper.png'))

=><= No. 46 ''//Systylium splachnoides//'' <==> </div> <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src=https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/systylium_splachnoides1.jpg> <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src=https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/systylium_splachnoides2.jpg> <== Its habitat is identical with //Splachnum Fraelichianum// (and many other //Splachnum// mosses), but it has narrower capsules and shorter seta (capsule stalks). <== (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bg1.jpg'))

(masteraudio: 'stopall') =><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| </div> Late October 1826 </div> From ''Jasper House'' to the ''Boat Encampment of the Columbia'' </div> [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|2.24]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bg1.jpg'))

{(track: 'hall', 'loop', true) (track: 'hall', 'playwhenpossible')} =><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/don1.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> Before you officially plan your leave, Mr. Drummond… We should descend the Athabaska River together, for the winter, my family and you. </div> |==| =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|2.25]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bg1.jpg'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== Mr. Finnan McDonald, another brilliant gentleman to join my party, had been working for the Company for twenty years. Folks say that he once survived a deadly battle with a buffalo. Now he had decided to quit this wild country. =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|2.26]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bg1.jpg'))

(masteraudio: 'stopall') {(track: 'snow', 'loop', true) (track: 'snow', 'playwhenpossible')} =><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== We made plans for ten days or so, and, unfortunately, travelled when the winter was the most severe. <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/don1.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> This isn’t looking good, Mr. Drummond. </div> |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drum.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> I get you. This river is wasted. </div> |==| =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|2.28]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/snow.png'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/don2.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> Ugh. Look at all this snow, it’s blocking the river. </div> |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drum.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> Leave it to me. </div> |==| I jumped off the boat into the half frozen river to push the boat in any direction possible. <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/don1.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> Please, don’t bother, Mr. Drummond. You’ve tried this a dozen times. I don’t want to carry all this luggage on foot, but it seems we have no choice. </div> |==| =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|2.30]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/snow.png'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== Mr. McDonald attempted to help me with the boat. He hissed as he stepped into the cold stream. |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drumshocked.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> You’re quite injured! We should keep you away from the ice. </div> |==| =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|2.31]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/snow.png'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== It was then that I realised there was frost through my wet clothes, since I had been soaked in the mixture of all the snow, the ice and water. Now it was starting to hurt a ton. =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|2.34]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/snow.png'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== I had to apologise to him, though, since it in fact took me five days to get to Fort Assinaboyne. ~~On my way, I had to collect a plant on ice that I had //never// seen elsewhere.~~ Luckily, Mr. Harriot at Fort Assinaboyne was very generous in supporting us. =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|2.40]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/snow.png'))

(masteraudio: 'stopall') =><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map1]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/img6.png'> Having sent horses to Mr. McDonald’s assistance, we gladly reunited at the Fort on 1 December, along with all the luggage. A few days later, I proceeded to Edmonton House, where I would spend the last winter in Saskatchewan. =><= </div> [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>''End of Chapter II''|3.0]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/snow.png'))

{(track: 'hall', 'loop', true) (track: 'hall', 'playwhenpossible')} =><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map2]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== I spent the winter at Edmonton House. It was quite a pleasant stay, as I was warmly welcomed by Mr. John Rowand, the superintendent. When I received letters from Dr. Richardson saying he would be at Carlton House in February, I realised this could be the end of my journey. I decided to set out for Carlton in the middle of March. =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|3.3]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bg1.jpg'))

=><= </div> (text-style:"bold","tall")[Gallery] </div> <==> </div> <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/mapfull.png'> =><= (text-size:0.8)[//'Po... Peace River, aye.'//] <==> </div> <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/img1.png'> =><= (text-size:0.8)[//'Those men could set out anytime soon.'//] <==> </div> <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/img2.png'> =><= (text-size:0.8)[//Temporary Solution//] <==> </div> <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/img3.png'> =><= (text-size:0.8)[//Long nights//] <==> </div> <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/img5.png'> =><= (text-size:0.8)[//'No more contract.'//] <==> </div> <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/img6.png'> =><= (text-size:0.8)[//The Last Winter//] <==> </div> <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/img7.png'> =><= (text-size:0.8)[//Homeward//] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bg1.jpg'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map2]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/row.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> The Iroquois are horrible at diplomacy. They get in trouble with the other tribes themselves. Although it is this Indian’s duty to protect you, you never know! He may run away, or get himself killed by stupidity. If you have not the volition against those barbarians, I would suggest you take the advice, sir. </div> |==| The way Mr. Rowand raised his voice in front of his workers was to say that he knew what was best. There were offended frowns among the hunters passing by. Perhaps due to awe, however, the young guide made no comment on his aggressiveness. =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|3.10]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bg1.jpg'))

(masteraudio: 'stopall') =><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map2]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| </div> A few days later… </div> =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|3.13]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bg1.jpg'))

(track: 'gun', 'play') {(track: 'snow', 'loop', true) (track: 'snow', 'playwhenpossible')} =><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map2]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drumsnow.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> (text-style:"blur")[I heard gunshot! Did you kill anything?] </div> |==| =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|3.14]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/snowblind.jpg'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map2]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== The (link-style:(text-style:"underline"))[(link-repeat: 'snow blindness')[(dialog: "Pain in the eyes caused by sunlight that is reflected from snow and ice.")]] was killing me… It appeared that there was no way we could catch anything for lunch. =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|3.16]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/snowblind.jpg'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map2]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== |= [<style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drumsnow.png'>] =|| <== </div> </div> </div> (text-style:"blur")[Hold them still, they look like they’re falling apart! Where are the horses, anyway?] </div> |==| =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|3.19]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/snowblind.jpg'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map2]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drumsnow.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> (text-style:"blur")[We should get rid of the deer!] </div> |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/guide2.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> (text-style:"blur")[What?] </div> |==| I had to get rid of something to get our horses moving. The most suitable item that came to mind was the Jumping Deer I killed and carried all the way from the Columbia River. I failed to preserve the skin to its perfect state as the flesh was not well divested. =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|3.21]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/snowblind.jpg'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map2]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drumshocked.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> (text-style:"blur")[Now that makes sense, we have to carry all this luggage ourselves!] </div> |==| Sensing a familiar sort of danger in the blinding daylight, snow melting beneath our feet, I called out to my Indian guide: <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drumsnow.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> (text-style:"blur")[But don’t worry! I can see we’re getting there sooner or later!] </div> |==| I couldn’t read my map against the wind, not to mention tell the direction or the distance in the blinding daylight. But I needed to maintain hope for the two of us. I would hate to see another Joseph, or Baptiste. In return, my guide was alert enough to recognise where we once were. =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|3.25]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/snowblind.jpg'))

(track: 'dog', 'play') =><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map2]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== The dogs opposed the idea by barking. |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/guide2.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> (text-style:"blur")[I don’t think we have much choice!] </div> |==| =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|3.28]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/snowblind.jpg'))

(track: 'gun', 'play') =><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map2]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== He lifted his gun at the animal and attacked. I, however, caught an unpleasant whiff. |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drumshocked.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> (text-style:"blur")[Careful, it’s releasing some strange liquid!] </div> |==| Just as I realised we were hunting a skunk, the Indian had it killed already. =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|3.29]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/snowblind.jpg'))

(masteraudio: 'stopall') (track: 'dog', 'play') =><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map2]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== The dogs barked hoarsely at the ridiculously stinking animal as we cooked. It was a decent meal… Apart from the terrible smell. The snow had diminished as we cooked. Though still painful and exhausted, my snow blindness was starting to ease. |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drum.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> We’ll get there anytime soon. </div> |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/guide1.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> You’ve been repeating that a lot, monsieur. </div> |==| =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|3.30]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/snowblind.jpg'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map2]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== To my relief, I was able to collect some more specimens. Right next to me in the woods was a tree with //[[Orthotrichum obtusifolium]]//. |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/guide1.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> I see you are working again, monsieur. Are they really that important? They’re just… dyes. </div> |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drum.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> I know you see them so much that you don’t have to care as much. But for me, they are quite fascinating... ...Sorry, you said these mosses are used for dyeing? </div> |==| =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|3.31]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/snowblind.jpg'))

=><= No. 157 ''//Orthotrichum obtusifolium//'' <==> </div> <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src=https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/orthotrichum_obtusifolium.jpg> <== A bluntleaf bristle moss. Grows on roots and trunks of mature trees (e.g. on poplar), like many other bristle mosses. It was found along with a lichen (not included here), which is an organism entirely different from a moss. The lichen is sometimes used for dyeing. //‘...a fine yellow //Lichen// with brownish black shields, which the natives of this country use for dyeing.’// <== (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bg1.jpg'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map2]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== He eyes followed where my fingers were pointing. |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/guide1.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> Oh, no. It's the yellow plant you found next to it. </div> |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drum2.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> That's a //Lichen//. Well, that makes more sense. Anyway, I’m glad to know. </div> |==| With that somewhat nostalgic happiness, we made it to Carlton House the next day. =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|3.32]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/snowblind.jpg'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map2]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| </div> 5 April 1827 </div> ''Carlton House'' </div> =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|3.33]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bg1.jpg'))

(track: 'footsteps', 'play') {(track: 'hall', 'loop', true) (track: 'hall', 'playwhenpossible')} =><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map2]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drum2.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> Dr. Richardson… </div> |==| =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|3.34]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bg1.jpg'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map2]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== Dr. Richardson sighed in relief. |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/ric1.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> Of course, I’m happy to see you back all well. How has your trip been? </div> |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drum2.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> As you said, sir, alive and well. Despite a few accidents. </div> |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/ric1.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> Is that why you were so late? We’re supposed to meet up with the Captains already. </div> |==| =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|3.37]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bg1.jpg'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map2]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== I pulled out my bale of plant specimens pressed in paper. |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/ric1.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> Ahh... Actually, I’ll leave you to your work, no more useless chatter! </div> |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drumhappy.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> You certainly know what’s best, sir. </div> |==| =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|3.38]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bg1.jpg'))

(masteraudio: 'stopall') =><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map2]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== I immediately started botanising around Carlton House, on the South Saskatchewan River. Dr. Richardson let me finish my work there as he hurried to Cumberland House to meet Captain Franklin. 14 July was the day I set out to Cumberland House along the river with Dr. Richardson’s servant, who rowed the canoe. 19 July. After two years of separation, I finally got to see Captain Franklin again. In a few days, we also met up with Captain Back, Lieutenant Kendall and everyone else. So far, everything had gone smoothly. We then moved on to York Factory, where we would sail through Hudson’s Bay back to England. =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|3.39]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/plain.png'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map2]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| </div> 1 September 1827 </div> ''Near'' (link-style:(text-style:"underline"))[(link-repeat: 'York Factory')[(dialog: "‘Factory’ referred to trading post.")]]'', Hudson’s Bay'' </div> [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|3.40]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bg1.jpg'))

{(track: 'wind', 'loop', true) (track: 'wind', 'playwhenpossible')} =><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map2]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== Before we set sail, Captain Back and some of the men, including myself, went to check in with our ship on a small vessel. The ship’s name was the Prince of Wales. //Isn’t this a beauty,// I thought to myself, //the ship that would take us home.// We turned to return to the fort with satisfaction. It was a calm evening. A soft breeze whispered to our delight. =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|3.41]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/sea.png'))

(masteraudio: 'stopall') {(track: 'morewind', 'loop', true) (track: 'morewind', 'playwhenpossible')} =><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map2]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== The wind responded, with more vigour. </div> =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|3.43]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/sea.png'))

(masteraudio: 'stopall') {(track: 'storm', 'loop', true) (track: 'storm', 'playwhenpossible')} =><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map2]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== The wind answered, no longer in just whispers, and suddenly started whirling, catching me off guard. I gripped my flying hat in a heartbeat. <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drumshocked.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> S-sir! There’s a hurricane coming! </div> |==| =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|3.45]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/sea.png'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map2]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== As a strong blow hit us, we tried to sail our boat back to the ship for cover… and got stuck in the middle of the whirlwind. |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/back1.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> It’s getting worse out there. </div> |==| <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/back2.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> ''Everyone stop rowing!'' Those still alive – I know all of you are! Get your arses over here and throw out the anchor!! </div> |==| I once felt greatly impressed by Captain Back’s paintings of Northern Canada, in a way that I forgot he was also a demanding navy admiral…… And an impatient one, probably. <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drum.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> Let’s hope they realise and send us support soon… </div> |==| =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|3.47]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/sea.png'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map2]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== (t8n:"shudder")[The waves slammed our vessel as though an earthquake were taking place. It was too late – the mast instantly crashed due to the hurricane, and I realised we were being carried farther and farther away from the shore. The vessel was shaken like the pendulum of a broken clock. All our men tumbled from one side to the other. I started to feel //very// sick. <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/back2.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> Useless… </div> |==| At this point, I could no longer tell if he was criticising the men or the vessel. We were trapped in such a state that one couldn’t even save himself.] =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|3.48]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/sea.png'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map2]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== (t8n:'rumble')[We still could not row ashore as the storm was too intense. The noise of the waves turned into pure horror. ] (t8n-delay:1.5s)+(t8n:'dissolve')+(t8n:'shudder')[Another wave beating me up.] (t8n-delay:3s)+(t8n:'dissolve')+(t8n:'rumble')[And another,] (t8n-delay:4.5s)+(t8n:'dissolve')+(t8n:'shudder')[And another…] (t8n:'dissolve')+(t8n-delay:6s)[Yet some of us still hadn’t given up, trying to steer away from being entirely wrecked. We kept baling. And steering. Holding still. No compass. No resistance against mother nature. I could only wish we were in a very bad dream, as one would eventually wake up. =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|3.50]]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/sea.png'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map2]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== Just as I was about to choke myself in the mountain-tall waves, Mr. Kendall made his move. <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/ken1.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> Hurry! Set this straight! </div> |==| This young lieutenant built a temporary mast while Captain Back took his chance to sail our boat windward. <== |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/ken1.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> Throw away the casks! Now! </div> |==| =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|3.49]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/sea.png'))

(masteraudio: 'stopall') {(track: 'sea', 'loop', true) (track: 'sea', 'playwhenpossible')} =><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map2]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== </div> (t8n:'dissolve')+(t8n-delay:1s)[After what felt like forever, a light shone on my face – what expression did I have? Sick as if drunken, or perhaps milk-drunken, as the boat wobbled. </div> =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|3.51]]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/home.png'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map2]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== </div> The sun was visible again. I looked up, lying beneath the clearer sky. Never had I been so happy to see a //mast// again. Despite being unable to conquer the storm, we managed to survive through the dark hours. It was truly a miracle. =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|3.52]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/home.png'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map2]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== </div> Mr. Kendall, the lieutenant and mapmaker, was still holding his temporary mast. If I could not remember his face then, my sickness would be the only reason. |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/ken2.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> We got pushed about sixty miles off shore. But don’t worry. We’ll get there. </div> |==| =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|3.54]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/home.png'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map2]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== (text-style:"buoy")[The tail of the ragged mainsail fluttered happily.] We sailed back to the shore, and were glad to see the Indians sent from York Factory, holding the casks we had thrown. Although that would also suggest they had once lost hope for our return. An extraordinary miracle indeed. As the men started to recover slowly, I made another excursion, but with little reward, so I stayed until we set sail. =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|3.55]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/home.png'))

=><= (t8n:'dissolve')[ </div> Days later] </div> (t8n:'dissolve')+(t8n-delay:1s)[''Onboard the //Prince of Wales//'' </div> =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|3.56]]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/home.png'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map2]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== I lifted my head, and immediately stood up to greet this great gentleman. |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/drum.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> Aye, Sir Franklin. </div> |==| =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|3.58]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/home.png'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map2]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== He must have wanted to ask something else, but was more attracted to the //[[Gymnostomum heimii]]// I was working on. |= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/frank1.png'> =|| <== </div> </div> </div> This is from York Factory? </div> |==| =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|3.62]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/home.png'))

=><= No. 13, 14, 15 ''//Gymnostomum heimii//'' <==> </div> <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src=https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/gymnostomum_heimii.jpg> <== Usually found on moist banks. <== (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bg1.jpg'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map2]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== As the sun sank into the ocean and my papers were lit by the fiery light of the sailors’ lamp, I found my inner peace once more. But every now and then, I wanted to share this feeling with someone else, too. Dr Hooker. James. My beloved children and Isobel. //Baptiste.// =><= [[<style> img {max-width:50%;max-height:50%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/pointer2.png'>|3.67]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/home.png'))

=><= (text-style:"subscript")[ |== [[Map|map2]] =|= [[Encyclopedia]] ==| [[Title]] ] |==| <== <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/img7.png'> =><= [[> Pleasure is all mine, Sir.|end]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/home.png'))

=><= ''Images'' (via Pixabay and modified, unless noted) <== (link-repeat: "Jasper national park, River, Mountains - Sonyuser")[(open-url: 'https://pixabay.com/photos/jasper-national-park-river-mountains-5819878/')] (link-repeat: "Beach, Birds, Sea - Pexels")[(open-url: 'https://pixabay.com/photos/beach-birds-sea-ocean-flying-birds-1852945/')] (link-repeat: "Old Paper Vintage - ArtsyBee")[(open-url: 'https://pixabay.com/illustrations/old-paper-vintage-coffee-stain-2228749/')] (link-repeat: "Stack Of Paper Antique Texture - tswedensky")[(open-url: 'https://pixabay.com/illustrations/stack-of-paper-antique-texture-1058406//')] (link-repeat: "Forest, Trees, Sun rays - Valiphotos")[(open-url: 'https://pixabay.com/photos/forest-trees-sun-rays-sunlight-fog-1072828/')] (link-repeat: "Nature, Fog, Travel - jameswheeler")[(open-url: 'https://pixabay.com/photos/nature-fog-travel-foggy-haze-mist-3787200/')] (link-repeat: "Ocean, Storm, Waves - jplenio")[(open-url: 'https://pixabay.com/photos/ocean-storm-waves-cloudy-weather-7461792/')] (link-repeat: "Snow Scene Trees - Wild0ne")[(open-url: 'https://pixabay.com/vectors/snow-scene-trees-isolated-cold-1848346/')] (link-repeat: "River Mountains Outdoors - GDJ")[(open-url: 'https://pixabay.com/vectors/river-mountains-outdoors-wilderness-8066497/')]. Used as title background. (link-repeat: "Big Dipper Constellation Over Dunes - NPS/Patrick Myers")[(open-url: 'https://www.flickr.com/photos/94707653@N06/38836718054')] under the Creative Commons Public Domain License. </div> =><= ''Ambience music/sound effects'' <== (link-repeat: "Dog Barking - RawGreen")[(open-url: 'https://freesound.org/people/RawGreen/sounds/159176/')] under the Creative Commons 0 License. (link-repeat: "Footsteps on Wood - gmarchisio")[(open-url: 'https://freesound.org/people/gmarchisio/sounds/168258/')] under the Creative Commons 0 License. (link-repeat: "Cathedral Ambience 1 (MS Stereo) - Quistard")[(open-url: 'https://freesound.org/people/Quistard/sounds/174118/')] under the Creative Commons 0 License. (link-repeat: "Forest river flows over rocks - BonnyOrbit")[(open-url: 'https://freesound.org/people/BonnyOrbit/sounds/442478/')] under the Creative Commons 0 License. (link-repeat: "Hall Full of People - ross sinc")[(open-url: 'https://freesound.org/people/ross_sinc/sounds/444792/')] under the Creative Commons 0 License. (link-repeat: "R03-03-Cold Wind on Ship - craigsmith")[(open-url: 'https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/481139/')] under the Creative Commons 0 License. (link-repeat: "Snowstorm Sound Effect - NicknameLarry")[(open-url: 'https://freesound.org/people/NicknameLarry/sounds/493680/')] under the Creative Commons 0 License. (link-repeat: "Gentle ocean waves birdsong and gull - jackmichaelking")[(open-url: 'https://freesound.org/people/jackmichaelking/sounds/518637/')] under the Creative Commons 0 License. (link-repeat: "yell-YELLGrizzlyBearVocalizations - Nivatius")[(open-url: 'https://freesound.org/people/Nivatius/sounds/519518/')] under the Creative Commons 0 License. (link-repeat: "move and growl grizzly bear - Nivatius")[(open-url: 'https://freesound.org/people/Nivatius/sounds/519596/')] under the Creative Commons 0 License. (link-repeat: "Blowing storm - SiriusParsec")[(open-url: 'https://freesound.org/people/SiriusParsec/sounds/529017/')] under the Creative Commons 0 License. (link-repeat: "Forest #3 - Antonio Lai")[(open-url: 'https://freesound.org/people/Antonio_Lai/sounds/548640/')] under the Creative Commons 0 License. (link-repeat: "a loud gunshot in the woods - florianreichelt")[(open-url: 'https://freesound.org/people/florianreichelt/sounds/563015/')] under the Creative Commons 0 License. (link-repeat: "Wind ambience - strong gusts - FascinatedSound")[(open-url: 'https://uppbeat.io/sfx/search/Wind%20ambience%20-%20strong%20gusts')] via Uppbeat. (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) [(enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bg1.jpg'))]

=><= [[Back to Title|Title]] </div> </div> <== //It is important to acknowledge that Drummond's collection of specimens, and by extension Franklin's expedition, was carried out through animus of the British colonialism in that era. The research and information presented in this online experience was produced as part of Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales' approach to decolonise archives, to bring to light the agency of Native American individuals and groups whose roles have been historically neglected.// </div> =><= ''Story, Art and Programming'' by Su (text-size:0.5)['Sam Ryu'] Liu. ''Supervised and Supported'' by <==> =|= (link-repeat: "<img src='https://museum.wales/block-media/Themes:Amgueddfa:Resources/ac-logo-black.svg'>")[(open-url: "https://museum.wales/")] =|= </div> (link-repeat: "<img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/tap_colour_4x-8.png'>")[(open-url: "https://sites.google.com/sheffield.ac.uk/tap")] |==| <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/div-1.png'> <== |= =><= ''Adapted from...'' </div> <== Thomas Drummond's (link-repeat: "//Sketch of a Journey to the Rocky Mountains and to the Columbia River in North America//")[(open-url: "https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/85019#page/4/mode/1up")], </div> and Sir John Franklin & John Richardson's (link-repeat: "//Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea in the Years 1825, 1826 and 1827//")[(open-url: "https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ilxO3AjGThcC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false")] </div> =| =><= ''...and based on'' </div> <== Initial research report carried out by Harry Pointon at the University of Sheffield </div> on Drummond's exsiccatae, //Musci Americani: Specimens of the Mosses Collected in British North America and Chiefly Among the Rocky Mountains During the Second Land Arctic Expedition of Captain Franklin, R.N//, part of the (link-repeat: "Botany Collections")[(open-url: "https://museum.wales/curatorial/biosyb/lowerplants/collections/specimens-and-exsiccatae/")] at National Museum Cardiff, </div> and QnAs with supervisor Nathan Smith. |==| </div> </div> =><= ''Special Thanks to...'' </div> Nathan Smith, Katherine Slade, Harry Pointon, Dan Mitchell, and all the (text-colour:#00994C)[green] doors at Museum Cardiff; External advisors Mya Badhan and Ali Kefayati =><= <style> img {max-width:100%;max-height:100%;}</style><img src='https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/div-1.png'> [[Secondary resources]] </div> [[Map references]] </div> [[Image/audio assets]] </div> </div> Developed using (link-repeat: "Twine")[(open-url: 'https://twinery.org/')] in (link-repeat: "Harlowe 3.3.6")[(open-url: 'https://twine2.neocities.org/')] format and (link-repeat: "Harlowe Audio Library")[(open-url: 'https://twinelab.net/harlowe-audio/#/')]. </div> </div> =><= ''// Thank you for playing!//'' [[Back to Title|Title]] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) (if: (history:) does not contain '3.67')[(enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bg1.jpg'))] (else:)[(enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/home.png'))]

=><= ''Secondary Resources:'' </div> <== William Jackson Hooker & Thomas Taylor's (link-repeat: "//Muscologia britannica//")[(open-url: 'https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/67968#page/9/mode/1up')] </div> William Jackson Hooker's (link-repeat: "//Musci exotici, Vol.II.//")[(open-url: 'https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/120340#page/1/mode/1up')] </div> S. Geiser's (link-repeat: "//Naturalists of the Frontier: VII. Thomas Drummond//")[(open-url: 'https://www.jstor.org/stable/43461768')] </div> D. Kennedy's (link-repeat: "//British Exploration in the Nineteenth Century, A Historiographical Survey//")[(open-url: 'https://compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1478-0542.2007.00480.x')] </div> P. Jenkins & S. Sealy's (link-repeat: "//The Problems of Resolving Historical Specimen Data, Focusing on a Specimen of Myotis Austroriparius Collected by Thomas Drummond//")[(open-url: 'https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/handle/1807/110548')] </div> C. Bird's (link-repeat: "//The Mosses Collected by Thomas Drummond in Western Canada, 1825-1827//")[(open-url: 'https://www.jstor.org/stable/3240954')] </div> (link-repeat: "NatureServe Explorer")[(open-url: 'https://explorer.natureserve.org/')] </div> (link-repeat: "The World Flora Online")[(open-url: 'https://www.worldfloraonline.org/')] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) [(enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bg1.jpg'))]

=><= ''Map References:'' (text-size: 0.8)[//From David Rumsey Historical Map Collection//] </div> <== A. Arrowsmith's (link-repeat: "//North America//")[(open-url: 'https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~26047~1110368:North-America-1-?title=Search+Results%3A+List_No+equal+to+%275699.001%27&thumbnailViewUrlKey=link.view.search.url&fullTextSearchChecked=&annotSearchChecked=&dateRangeSearchChecked=&showShareIIIFLink=true&helpUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fdocumentation.lunaimaging.com%2Fdisplay%2FV75D%2FLUNA%2BViewer%23LUNAViewer-LUNAViewer&showTip=false&showTipAdvancedSearch=false&advancedSearchUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fdocumentation.lunaimaging.com%2Fdisplay%2FV75D%2FSearching%23Searching-Searching')] </div> P. Vandermaelen's (link-repeat: "//Partie, Nouvelle Bretagne. Amer. Sep. 32.//")[(open-url: 'https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~21602~650042:Partie,-Nouvelle-Bretagne--Amer--Se;JSESSIONID=101f9da2-69ee-4976-b21b-718b10fb9f0a?title=Search+Results%3A+List_No+equal+to+%272212.237%27&thumbnailViewUrlKey=link.view.search.url&fullTextSearchChecked=&annotSearchChecked=&dateRangeSearchChecked=&showShareIIIFLink=true&helpUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fdocumentation.lunaimaging.com%2Fdisplay%2FV75D%2FLUNA%2BViewer%23LUNAViewer-LUNAViewer&showTip=false&showTipAdvancedSearch=false&advancedSearchUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fdocumentation.lunaimaging.com%2Fdisplay%2FV75D%2FSearching%23Searching-Searching')] </div> Divine's (link-repeat: "//Northwest Part of Canada (portion)//")[(open-url: 'https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~204893~3002198:Facsimile--Devine-s-Northwest-Part-?title=Search+Results%3A+List_No+equal+to+%270009.062%27&thumbnailViewUrlKey=link.view.search.url&fullTextSearchChecked=&annotSearchChecked=&dateRangeSearchChecked=&showShareIIIFLink=true&helpUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fdocumentation.lunaimaging.com%2Fdisplay%2FV75D%2FLUNA%2BViewer%23LUNAViewer-LUNAViewer&showTip=false&showTipAdvancedSearch=false&advancedSearchUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fdocumentation.lunaimaging.com%2Fdisplay%2FV75D%2FSearching%23Searching-Searching')] </div> Berghaus, Flemming & Sohr's (link-repeat: "//Vereinigte Staate(n v. Nordamerika) I.//")[(open-url: 'https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~32967~1171038:Vereinigte-Staate-n-v--Nordamerika-?title=Search+Results%3A+List_No+equal+to+%274765.105%27&thumbnailViewUrlKey=link.view.search.url&fullTextSearchChecked=&annotSearchChecked=&dateRangeSearchChecked=&showShareIIIFLink=true&helpUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fdocumentation.lunaimaging.com%2Fdisplay%2FV75D%2FLUNA%2BViewer%23LUNAViewer-LUNAViewer&showTip=false&showTipAdvancedSearch=false&advancedSearchUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fdocumentation.lunaimaging.com%2Fdisplay%2FV75D%2FSearching%23Searching-Searching')] (enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)) [(enchant:?page,(background:'https://tempassetstwine.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/3/146388988/bg1.jpg'))]

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