﻿36 THE GOVERNOR OF RUPERT's LAND. April, 



the party conveying the stores in the vicinity of 

 Methy Portage. 



In April, 1 847, 1 had the advantage of a personal 

 interview with Sir George Simpson, Governor-in- 

 chief of Rupert's Land, who was then on a visit to 

 England, and of concerting with him the measures 

 necessary for the future progress of the expedition ; 

 and I may state here that he entered warmly into 

 the projects for the relief of his old acquaintance 

 Sir John Franklin ; and from him I received the 

 kindest personal attention, and that support which 

 his thorough knowledge of the resources of the 

 country and his position as Governor enabled him 

 so effectively to bestow. He informed me that 

 the stock of provisions at the various posts in 

 the Hudson's Bay territories was unusually low, 

 through the failure of the bison hunts on the 

 Saskatchewan, and that it would be necessary to 

 carry out pemican from this country, adequate 

 not only to the ulterior purposes of the voyage 

 in the Arctic Sea, but also to the support of the 

 party during the interior navigation in 1847 and 

 1848. I, therefore, obtained authority from the 

 Admiralty to manufacture, forthwith, the requisite 

 quantity of that kind of food in Clarence Yard ; 

 and as I shall have frequent occasion to allude to 

 it in the subsequent narrative, it may be well to 

 describe in this place the mode of its preparation. 



