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which was distant about 550 miles from Chipe- 

 wyan. Captain Franklin states their journey briefly 

 thus : — 



" The counted length of the portages we had crossed, 

 since leaving Fort Providence, is twenty-one statute-miles 

 and a half; and as our men had to traverse each portage 

 four times with a load of 180 pounds, and return three times 

 light, they walked in the whole upwards of one hundred and 

 fifty miles. The total length of our voyage from Chipewyan 

 is five hundred and fifty-three miles. In the afternoon (he 

 says) we read divine service, and offered our thanksgiving 

 to the Almighty for his goodness in having brought us thus 

 far on our journey ; a duty which we never neglected, when 

 stationary, on the Sabbath." 



Before the termination of the last journey, how- 

 ever, the Canadian voyagers became discontented, 

 and threatened not to proceed forward unless more 

 food was given to them; and Franklin, after ad- 

 dressing them in the strongest manner on the 

 danger of insubordination, and his determination 

 to inflict the heaviest punishment on any who 

 should refuse to proceed, admits that their hardships 

 were of a kind that few would support without 

 murmuring, and none could witness without a 

 sincere pity for their sufferings. Relief, however, 

 was at hand by the arrival of some hunters with 

 the carcases of reindeer. 



On arriving at their destination, the Canadians 

 set cordially about the erection of a house for their 

 winter quarters, to which was given the name of 



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