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CHAPTER V. 
Transactions at Fort Chipewyan—Arrival of Dr. Richardson and 
Mr. Hood—Preparations for our Journey to the Northward. 
oe On the day after our arrival at Fort 
Chipewyan we called upon Mr, Mac Donald, the 
- gentleman in charge of the Hudson’s Bay Estab- 
lishment called Fort Wedderburne, and delivered 
to him Governor Williams’s circular letter, which 
desired that every assistance should be given to 
further our progress, and a statement of the re- 
quisitions which we should have to make on his 
post. 
Our first object was to obtain some certain 
information respecting our future route: and ac- 
cordingly we received from one of the North- 
West Company’s interpreters, named Beaulieu, 
a half-breed, who had been brought up amongst 
the Dog-ribbed and Copper-Indians, some satis- 
factory information, which we afterwards found 
tolerably correct, respecting the mode of reaching 
the Copper-mine River, which he had descended 
a considerable way, as well as of the course of 
