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his tribe. We were highly pleased to find his 

 sentiments so favourable to our views, and, after 

 making some minor arrangements, we parted, 

 mutually content with each other. 



Akaitcho left us on the morning of the 31st, 

 accompanied by Augustus, who, at his request, 

 went to reside for a few days at his lodge. 



On the 4th of April our men arrived with the 

 last supply of goods from Fort Providence, the 

 fruits of Mr. Back's arduous journey to the Atha- 

 basca Lake; and on the 17th Belanger fe gw 

 and Belanger le rouge, for so our men discrimi- 

 nated them, set out for Slave Lake, with a box 

 contammg the journals of the officers, charts, 

 drawmgs, observations, and letters addressed to 

 the Secretary of State for Colonial Affairs. They 

 also conveyed a letter for Governor Williams, in 

 which I requested that he would, if possible, send 

 a schooner to Wager Bay with provisions and 

 clothing to meet the exigencies of the party, 

 should they succeed in reaching that part of the 

 coast. 



Connoyer, who was much tormented with bi- 

 liary calculi, and had done little or no duty all the 

 winter, was discharged at the same time, and 

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The commencement of April was fine, and for 



