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now the site of Fort Resolution. Here he was
forced to wait five days for the ice to move.
He kept his men busy hunting and fishing,
while the women gathered berries, so that
their stores might be preserved intact. On
June 14 heavy rain helped to break up the
ice, and the next day the party moved a few
miles out into the lake to a small island. For
eight days more they went as they could, from
island to island, a few miles at a time, towards
the north shore of the lake, checked continu-
ally by ice and wind. On the 19th Mackenzie
notes: ‘“‘We were pestered by musquitoes,
though in a great measure surrounded by
ice.’ On the 2Ist seven caribou, marooned
on an island, were easily killed. Mackenzie
sat up all night to watch the sun, which was
below the horizon for only four hours and a
quarter; during the night ice an eighth of an
inch thick formed on the lake. On the 22nd
two bags of pemmican were concealed on an
island for use on the return trip. At last on
the 23rd the party reached the northern main-
land at an Indian village some way up the
long North Arm of the lake. Here a day was