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truth, they were tired of the repetitions and 

 details of my questions ; and no wonder ; for 

 before I began, they had sat up with Mr. 

 M'Leod the whole night, telling their prolix 

 stories with much cheerfulness. I could not 

 help smiling at the Camarade, who, puzzled 

 and distressed at the many positions in which I 

 requested he would place himself, so as to give 

 me an idea of the bearings of what he was 

 describing, at last rather peevishly exclaimed, 

 " that we did not place the world as it was ; 

 whereas he kept steadily to the rising and 

 setting sun." 



In our progress down Slave River, we halted 

 for a short time at a cache of Mr. Stuart's, 

 having his permission to take from it a stock of 

 birch bark, sufficient for building a new canoe. 

 On the Sth of August we reached Great Slave 

 Lake, and were received at Fort Resolution by 

 Mr. McDonnell, the gentleman in charge. 



