NORTH-WEST CONTINENT OF AMERICA.

and a fmall portion of ammunition to the healthy; which, indeed, they
very much wanted, as they had entirely lived for the laft fix months on
the produce of their bows and arrows. They appeared to have been
great fufferers by their expedition.

It froze hard during the night, and was very cold throughout the
day, with an appearance of fnow. We embarked at half paft four in
the morning, and continued our courfe till fix in the evening, when

we landed for the night at our encampment of the third of June.

The weather was cloudy and alfo very cold. At eight we em-
barked with a North-Eaft wind, and entered the Lake of the Hills.
About ten, the wind veered to the Weftward, and was as {trong as we
could bear it with the high fail, fo that we arrived at Chepewyan fort by
three o’clock in the afternoon, where we found Mr. Macleod, with five
men, bufily employed in building a new houfe. Here, then, we con-
cluded this voyage, which had occupied the confiderable fpace of one

hundred and two days.

vantage; and affured him, that if he would never more go to war with fuch poor defencelefs people,
that I would cure him. ‘To this propofition he readily confented, and on my giving him medicine,
which confifted of Turlington’s balfam, mixed in water, I declared, that it would lofe its effe&t, if he
was not fincere in the promife that he made ine. In fhort, he aftually recovered, was true to his

engagements, and on all occafions manifefted his gratitude to me,

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September.

Friday 11.

Saturday 12.