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dition, and in the consultation with the principals 

 of the two great and contending companies. Frank- 

 lin, by his persuasive and conciliating manners, 

 brought about a cordial desire on the part of both 

 to render mutual assistance to the forwarding of 

 that object. Here, too, in the early part of July, 

 he had the sincere gratification of welcoming his 

 long-separated friends Dr. Richardson and Mr. 

 Hood, who arrived in perfect health : and he re- 

 cords the zeal and talents displayed by these two 

 gentlemen, and speaks in the highest terms of ap- 

 probation of the manner in w 7 hich their several 

 duties had been discharged since their separation. 



The Chipewyans are the neighbouring tribe of 

 the Stone Indians, with less promising features, but 

 more honest, rude in their manners, and extremely 

 superstitious. Their features also are against them; 

 they have broad faces, projecting cheek-bones, and 

 wide nostrils; but generally good teeth, and fine 

 eyes ; they are reserved and selfish ; they beg with 

 unceasing importunity everything they see. <l I 

 never saw men," says Franklin, " who either re- 

 ceived or bestowed a gift with such bad grace ; 

 they almost snatch the thing from you in the one 

 instance, and throw it at you in the other." Our 

 travellers fell in with a party of these people in the 

 most forlorn condition, having destroyed everything 

 they had possessed, as the token of grief for the severe 

 loss they had sustained by the prevailing sickness 



