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17809. Auguft. (Ger ss

Monday 24.

JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE THROUGH THE

wind and fwell, and encamped for the night, in order to wait for our

~-—~ Indians. We then fet our nets, made a yard and maft, and gummed the

canoe. On vifiting the nets, we found fix white fith, and two pike. —

The women gathered cranberries and crowberries in great plenty ; and

as the night came on the weather became more moderate.

Our nets this morning produced fourteen white fith, ten pikes, and a couple of trouts. At five we embarked with a light breeze from the South, when we hoifted fail, and proceeded flowly, as our Indians had not

come up with us. At eleven we went on fhore to prepare the kettle, and

dry the nets; at one we were again onthe water. At four in the after-

noon we perceived a large canoe with a fail, and two {mall ones ahead;

we foon came up with them, when they proved to be M. Le Roux and an

Indian, with his family, who were on an hunting party, and had been out twenty five days. It was his intention to have gone as far as the river, to leave a letter for me, to inform me of his fituation. He had feen no more Indians where I had left him; but had made a voyage to Lac la Marte, where he met eighteen {mall canoes of the Slave Indians, from whom he obtained five packs of fkins, which were principally thofe of the marten. There were four Beaver Indians among them, who had bartered the greateft part of the abovementioned articles with them, be- fore his arrival. They informed him that their relations had more

{kins, but that they were afraid to venture with them, though they had

been informed that people were to come with goods to barter for them.

He gave thefe people a pair of ice chifels each, and other articles, and fent them away to conduét their friends to the Slave Lake, where he was to remain during the fucceeding winter.

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