Kellsey

On this journey Kellsey encountered the grizzly bear, a more common denizen of the western regions of North America.

Pioneers in Canada Harry Hamilton Johnston 1892

After this Kellsey (who must then have been about seventeen) seems to have regularly enrolled himself in 1688 in the service of the

Pioneers in Canada Harry Hamilton Johnston 1892

Kellsey was already acquainted with the musk ox, which he had seen in the colder regions near to

Pioneers in Canada Harry Hamilton Johnston 1892

Kellsey at once told him in English that he would not enter himself if his wife was not suffered to go with him, and so the governor relented.

Pioneers in Canada Harry Hamilton Johnston 1892

Kellsey afterwards rose to be governor of York Fort, on the west coast of Hudson Bay.

Pioneers in Canada Harry Hamilton Johnston 1892

Kellsey, when he was about ten years old, ran away with the returning

Pioneers in Canada Harry Hamilton Johnston 1892

Six years afterwards an Indian brought to the governor of the fort a letter written by Kellsey in charcoal on a piece of white birch bark.

Pioneers in Canada Harry Hamilton Johnston 1892

As a kind reply was sent, Kellsey appeared not long afterwards grown into a young man, accompanied by an

Pioneers in Canada Harry Hamilton Johnston 1892

Kellsey had obstructed them from their purpose of avenging their slain women, therefore the gods of the tribe were angry and claimed this victim in the man who had died.

Pioneers in Canada Harry Hamilton Johnston 1892

Stupid Governor Geyer not only objected to Kellsey picking up the Kri language, but punished him most severely for that and for his boyish tricks and jokes; so much so, that

Pioneers in Canada Harry Hamilton Johnston 1892