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suit. Such unexpected channels does commerce 

 open for the conveyance of intelligence, and had 

 previous arrangements been made, we might, by 

 the route across the Andes at Panama, the Atlantic 

 steamers to California or the Sandwich Islands, and 

 this northern way back again across the Rocky 

 Mountain ridge, have had much more recent in- 

 telligence of our friends in Europe than we were 

 destined to receive during our long winter residence 

 on Great Bear Lake. 



The Lewis flows from a large sheet of water, 

 lying within the English boundary, but named the 

 Russian Lake, because Mr. Roderick Campbell, who 

 was the first officer of the Hudson's Bay Company 

 who visited it, met there a party of Russian traders. 

 The influence of these rivals in trade is supposed 

 to have caused the attack made by the natives on 

 Mr. Campbell's post in the winter of 1889, which 

 resulted in the loss of three of his party by famine, 

 and the narrow escape of the remainder from 

 the same fate, as related in the narrative of Dease 

 and Simpson's voyage (p. 173.). Mr. Campbell, 

 undaunted by this calamity, renewed his journeys 

 in the same direction, and, in consequence of an 

 agreement that had then been made between the 

 Hudson's Bay and Russian Fur Companies, with 

 less hazard. His first post, named after himself, 

 was on the Pelly, and at the supposed distance 



