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was restored to health, though her recovery was 

 for some time doubtful.* On the beach I observed 

 a patch of parsley {Apium petroselinum) in flower ; 

 probably ha\dDg sprung from seed scattered by a 

 party going to Peel River, as I met with the plant 

 in no other quarter. 



July SOth. — In this day's voyage we saw many 

 small parties of Kutchin, seemingly all in want of 

 provisions, owing to the high water spoiling their 

 fishery. From one man, however, we purchased a 

 fine white-fish (Coi^egonus), weighing nearly eight 

 pounds. These families are the most easterly of 

 the Kutchin ; and, far from exhibiting the manly 

 conduct and personal cleanliness for which their 

 nation is noted on the banks of the Porcupine and 

 Yukon, have much of the abject demeanour of 

 their neighbours, the Hare Indians. Their jackets 

 differ from those of the Chepewyans in being 

 peaked, after the manner of those of the Eskimos. 

 From their being able to remain in the close 

 vicinity of the latter people, it is evident that they 

 possess more courage than the Hare Indians. 



In the morning we passed an affluent thirty or 

 forty yards wide, coming in from the eastward, 



* There must have been some mistake in the information 

 which I furnished to Sir "William J. Hooker respecting these 

 two plants^ as the JI. Mackenzii is said in the Flora Boreali- 

 Americana to have the edible root. 



