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len wrappers, nine ; flannel shirts, eighteen ; hatchets, 

 twenty-six ; tin pots, ten ; with beads, thread, knives, 

 needles, and other trifles, equal to one hundred and eighty 

 pounds : the sledges with their lashings and drag-ropes are 

 estimated at two hundred and forty pounds ; one lower 

 studding sail and painted canvass covers for the sledges, one 

 hundred and twenty pounds ; spare snow shoes, buskins, 

 vamps, cufts, and twenty-eight knapsacks, eighty pounds : 

 making, independent of a small quantity of baggage allowed 

 to each person, three thousand six hundred and twenty 

 pounds in wieght. 



13th. Wind N.W. blowing strong. At 7 A. M. com- 

 menced our march in crossing the arm from the schooner 

 to Little Peter's Point, which is two miles ; we found it ex- 

 tremely cold, with the snow drifting, and sledges heavy from 

 the sloppiness of the ice; but having rounded the point, we 

 became sheltered from the wind until reaching Wigwam 

 Point, which is two miles farther up on the north side; 

 here the river turns to the northw ard ; a mile farther up is 

 Mr. INliller's upper Salmon station ; the winter crew have 

 their house on the south shore. 3 P.M. having reached 

 the remains of a house occupied by William Cull last winter, 

 we put up for the night, our distance made good being but 

 eight miles in as many hours travelling. The night proved 

 so intensely cold, w ith light snow at times, that none of our 

 party could refresh themselves with sleep. 



14th. Wind N.W. with sharp piercing cold. Renewed 

 our journey with the dawn, not sorry to leave a place in 

 which we had passed so intolerable a night. Having pro- 

 ceeded two miles, we came to the Nutt Islands, four in 

 munber, situated in the middle of the river ; a mile above 

 these, occurs the flrst rattle or small waterfall ; as far as the 

 eye could discern up the river, nothing appeared but ice, in 

 rugged ridges, threatening to preclude the possibility of 

 drawing the sledges along ; but determined to surmount all 

 practicable difficulties, I proceeded on with the guides to 



