2 JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE THROUGH THE

ae degrees variation Eaft, in a canoe made of birch bark. The crew con-
‘--~——_fifted of four Canadians, two of whom were attended by their wives,

and a German; we were accompanied alfo by an Indian, who had
acquired the title of Englifh Chief, and his two wives, in a fmall canoe,
with two young Indians; his followers in another {mall canoe. Thefe
men were engaged to ferve us in the twofold capacity of interpreters
and hunters, This Indian was one of the followers of the chief who
conducted Mr. Hearne to the copper-mine river, and has fince been a
principal leader of his countrymen who were in the habit of carrying
furs to Churchill Fa€tory, Hudfon’s Bay, and till of late very much
attached to the intereft of that company. Thefe circumftances pro-
cured him the appellation of the Englith Chief.

We were alfo accompanied by a canoe that I had equipped for the
purpofe of trade, and given the charge of it to M. Le Roux, one of the
Company’s clerks. In this I was obliged to fhip part of our provifion;

which, with the clothing neceflary for us on the voyage, a proper
affortment of the articles of merchandize as prefents, to enfure us a
friendly reception among the Indians, and the ammunition and arms
requifite for defence, as well as a fupply for our hunters, were more
than our own canoe could carry, but by the time we fhould part com-
pany, there was every reafon to fuppofe that our expenditure would
make fufficient room for the whole.

We proceeded twenty-one miles to the Welt, and then took a courfe
of nine miles to North-N orth-Weft, when we entered the river, or one
of the branches of the lake, of which there are feveral. We then fteered
North five miles, when our courfe changed for two miles to North-

North