Excerpt from Report on the Exploration of the Country Between Lake Superior and the Red River Settlement, 1858 Also, such voyageurs or canoe-men as in your judgment may be necessary the probable number of canoes being assumed at inn, with four voyageurs in each such men to be selected with a view to their being capable of assisting the engineering and surveying branches of the expedition, as axe-men, fie when required. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.