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started out on his trip to the Pacific, was that of Peter Pang-
man. Alexander Henry, the younger, relates that when he
was at Rocky Mountain House in 1810, he rode to rising
ground in the west and found engraved on a pine-tree the
name of Peter Pangman, and the date 1790, and Henry
says that from this position “the Rocky Mountains appear
at no great distance all covered with snow.”

NOTE

Under date of 15 May, 1926, a London dispatch states
that officials of the Hudson’s Bay Company, London, have
gone to Ulster to copy a remarkable document which has
just come to light.

Papers of the Dobbs family, Carrickfergus, just presented
to the Ulster Record Office were found to include three
journals dealing with the explorations of the North-West
Passage. “The earliest and most valuable is the journal of
Henry Kellsey, covering the period from 1683 to 1722.

Kellsey, whose life was spent in exploration, was the
first Englishman to penetrate from the Hudson Bay coast
to the western Canadian prairie country. It was not before
known that a copy of his journal was in existence.