it. The descent was quickly accomplished, and 
they perceived the bottom of the lost canoe above 
water in a little bay, whither it had been whirled 
by the eddy. One man had reached the bank, 
but no traces could be found of the foreman, 
Louis Saint Jean. We saved the canoe, out of 
which two guns and a case of preserved meats 
had been thrown into the rapid*. So early a 
sity of procuring a guide, determined us to wait 
for the arrival of the North-West Company's 
but as the gun wales were 
it. In the evening a N. W. canoe ar- 
rived, with two of the partners. They gave us 
an account of Mr. Franklin's proceedings, and 
A Bf te ie 
se et Nm ee th 
- qqnpanines De. Ricuanneon's Journal. 
