222 JOURNEY TO THE SHORES 
that river to its mouth. The Copper Indians, 
however, he said, would be able to give us more 
accurate information as to the latter part of its 
course, as they occasionally pursue it to the sea. 
He sketched on the floor a representation of the 
river, and a line of coast according to his idea of 
it. Just as he had finished, an old Chipewyan 
Indian, named Black Meat, unexpectedly came 
in, and instantly recognised the plan. He then 
took the charcoal from Beaulieu, and inserted a 
track along the sea-coast, which he had followed 
in returning from a war excursion, made by his’ 
tribe against the Esquimaux. He detailed seve- 
ral particulars of the coast and the sea, which he 
represented as studded with well-wooded islands, 
and free from ice, close to the shore, in the 
month of July, but not to a great distance. He de- 
scribed two other rivers to the eastward of the 
Copper-mine River, which also fall into the 
Northern Ocean. The Anatessy, which issues 
from the Contway-to or Rum Lake, and the 
Thloueea-tessy or Fish River, which rises neat 
the eastern boundary of the Great Slave Lake: 
but he represented both of them as being shallow, 
and too much interrupted by barriers for being 
navigated in any other than small Indian canoes 
~ Having received this satisfactory intelligence, 
T wrote immediately to Mr. Smith, of the North 
