ARRIVAL OF BOATS FROM PEACE RIVER. 465 



seed again sown, in the hope of a more fortunate 



result. 



On the 23d of May, some boats laden with 

 furs, &c. arrived from the post on Peace River, 

 whence they also brought a cow and calf, 

 and thereby supplied us with luxuries till then 

 untasted at Chipewyan. A few days after, two 

 gentlemen made their appearance from the 

 Company's farthest establishments to the south- 

 west of the Rocky Mountains, a long and tedious 

 journey, which they had performed partly on 

 horseback and partly in canoes. They were 

 sensibly affected by the change of temperature, 

 and remarked that the difference even within a 

 few days was like the transition from summer to 

 winter. 



Chilly N.E. winds had prevailed for nearly a 

 fortnight, and when these blew fresh the ice 

 from that quarter drifted down in large quan- 

 tities, and blocked up the channel, which at 

 other times, under favourable circumstances, was 

 clear enough to afford a passage out of the lake. 

 On such occasions I was naturally anxious to get 

 away, although unwilling to do so in the absence 

 of my interpreter Thomas Hassel. He had re- 

 mained at Fort Resolution at his own request, as 

 substitute for the interpreter of that post, removed 

 in consequence of illness to Fort Reliance for 

 the benefit of the attention of Mr. King, under 



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