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dians during their summer hunt. On the 25th, 

 clothing, and other necessary articles, were issued 

 to the Canadians as their equipment for the en- 

 suing voyage. Two or three blankets, some 

 cloth, iron work, and trinkets were reserved for 

 distribution amongst the Esquimaux on the sea- 

 coast. Laced dresses were given to Augustus 

 and Junius. It is impossible to describe the joy 

 that took possession of the latter on the receipt of 

 this present. The happy little fellow burst into 

 ecstatic laughter, as he surveyed the different 

 articles of his gay habiliments. 



In the afternoon Humpy, the leader's elder 

 brother ; Annoethai-yazzeh, another of his bro- 

 thers ; and one of our guides, arrived with the 

 remainder of Akaitcho's band ; as also Long-legs, 

 brother to the Hook, with three of his band. 

 There were now in the encampment, thirty hunters, 

 thirty-one women, and sixty children, in all one 

 hundred and twenty-one Indians of the Copper- 

 Indian or Red-Knife tribe. The rest of the nation 

 were with the Hook on the lower part of the 

 Copper-Mine River. 



Anncethai-yazzeh is remarkable amongst the 

 Indians for the number of his descendants ; he 

 has eighteen children living by two wives, of 

 whom sixteen were at the fort at this time. 



In the evening we had another formidable con- 

 ference. The former complaints were reiterated. 



