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sizes. Our provision was two casks of flour, two hundred dried rein- 

 deer tongues, some dried moose meat, portable soup, and arrow- 

 root, sufficient in the whole for ten days' consumption, besides two 

 cases of chocolate, and two canisters of tea. We engaged another 

 Canadian voyager at this place, and the expedition then consisted of 

 twenty-eight persons, including the officers, and the wives of three 

 of our voyagers, who were brought for the purpose of making shoes 

 and clothes for the men at the winter establishment ; there were 

 also three children, belonging to two of these women *. 



Our observations place Fort Providence in latitude 62° 17' 19" N., 

 longitude 1 14° 9' 28" W. ; the variation of the compass is 33° 35' 55'' 

 E., and dip of the needle 86° 38' 02". It is distant from Moose-Deer 

 Island sixty-six geographic miles. This is the last establishment 

 of the traders in this direction, but the North- West Company 

 have two to the northward of it, on the Mackenzie River. It has 

 been erected for the convenience of the Copper and Dog-rib Indians, 



following is the list of the officers and men who composed the expedit 



departure from Fort Providence : 



Command 



John Richardson, M.D., Surgeon of the Royal Navy. 

 Mr. George Back, of the Royal Navy, Admiralty Midshi 

 Mr. Robert Hood, of the Royal Navy, Admiralty Midsh 

 Mr. Frederick Wentzel, Clerk to the North- West Comiw 



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Canadian Voyagers 



Joseph Peltier, Joseph Forcier, Jean Baptiste Parent, 



Mathew Pelonquin, dit Credit, Ignace Perrault, Jean Baptiste Belanger, 



Solomon Belanger, Francais Samandre, Jean Baptiste Belleau, 



Joseph Bennoit, , Gabriel Beauparlant Emanuel Cournoyee, 



Joseph Gagne, Vincenza Fontano, Michel Teroahaute an 



Pierre Dumas, Registe Vaillant, Troquois. 



Interpreters 



Pierre St. Germain, Jean Baptiste Adam* Chipewyan Bois Bruits. 



