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sence of these Indians, as they are in the habit 
of begging for every thing they see. Our stores 
consisted of two barrels of gunpowder, one hun- 
dred and forty pounds of ball and small shot, four 
fowling-pieces, a few old trading guns, eight 
pistols, twenty-four Indian daggers, some pack- 
ages of knives, chisels, axes, nails, and fastenings 
for a boat; a few yards of cloth, some blankets, 
needles, looking-glasses, and beads; together 
with nine fishing-nets, having meshes of different 
sizes. Our provision was two casks of flour, 
two hundred dried rein-deer tongues, some dried 
moose meat, portable soup, and arrow-root, suffi- 
cient in the whole for ten days’ consumption, 
besides two cases of chocolate, and two canisters 
of tea. We engaged another Canadian voyager 
at this place, and the Expedition then consisted 
of twenty-eight persons, including the officers, 
and the wives of three of our voyagers, who were 
brought for the purpose of making shoes and 
clothes for the men at the winter establishment; 
there were also three children, belonging to two 
of these women*. 
_* The following is the list of the —— and men who composed 
the Expedition on its departure from Fort Providence : 
John Franklin, Lieutenant of the Royal Navy and Commander. 
John Richardson, M.D., Surgeon of the Royal gn 8 
Mr. George Back, of the Royal Navy, Admiralty M 
Mr. Robert Hood, of the Royal Navy, Admiralty Misia 
