472 CONCLUSION. 



have to report, that the long and tedious journey 

 from Slave Lake to York Factory had been un- 

 attended by a single calamity. 



On my arrival in London, I had the honour 

 of laying my chart and drawings before the Right 

 Hon. Lord Glenelg, Principal Secretary of State 

 for the Colonies, — under the orders of which 

 department, as already stated, I had proceeded, 

 — and also before Lord Auckland and the Board 

 of Admiralty. I was soon after honoured with an 

 audience by His Majesty ; who was condescend- 

 ing enough to manifest a gracious interest in 

 the discoveries which it had been my good 

 fortune to make, and to express his approbation 

 of my humble efforts, first in the cause of hu- 

 manity, and next in that of geographical and 

 scientific research. 



