glo JOURNEY TO THE SHORES 
preceding evening, toa band of Indians, in search 
of meat, and they promised to furnish us with 
whatever should be brought, it was deemed 
advisable to wait for their return, as the smallest 
‘supply was now of importance to us, Advantage 
was taken of the delay to repair effectually the 
canoe, which had been broken in the Dog Rapid. 
On the next evening the men arrived with the 
meat, and enabled Mr. M‘Cleod, of the North- 
West Company, to furnish us with four hundred 
pounds of dried provisions. Mr. M‘Vicar, of the 
Hudson’s Bay Company, also supplied one hun- 
dred and fifty pounds. This quantity we con- 
sidered would be sufficient, until we could join 
the hunters. We also obtained three fishing-nets, 
a gun, and a pair of pistols, which were all the 
stores these posts could furnish, although the 
gentlemen in charge were much disposed to 
assist us. 
Moose-Deer Island is about a mile in diame- 
ter, and rises towards the centre about three 
hundred feet above the lake. Its soil is in general 
sandy, in some parts swampy. The varieties of 
the northern berries grow abundantly on it. The 
North-West Company’s Fort is in latitude 61° 11’ 
8° N.; longitude 113° 51’ 37’ W., being two 
hundred and sixty statute x iles distant from 
Fort Chipewyan, by the river course. The va- 
