3C8 JOURNEY TO THE SHORES 



ately gave us changes of dress, and did every 

 thing in his power to make us comfortable. 



Our sensations, on being once more in a com- 

 fortable dwelling, after the series of hardships 

 and miseries we had experienced, will be much 

 better imagined than any language of mine can 

 describe them. Our first act was again to return 

 our grateful praises to the Almighty for the mani- 

 fold instances of his mercy towards us. Having 

 found here some articles, which Mr. Back had 

 sent across from Moose-deer Island, I determined 

 on awaiting the arrival of Akaitcho and his party, 

 in order to present th'fese to them, and to assure 

 them of the promised reward, as soon as it could 

 possibly be procured. 



In the afternoon of the 14th, Akaitcho, with 

 his whole band came to the Fort. He smoked 

 his customary pipe, and made an address to Mr. 

 Weeks in the hall, previous to his coming into 

 the room in which Dr. Richardson and I were. 

 We discovered at the commencement of his 

 speech to us, that he had been informed that our 

 expected supplies had not come. He spoke of 

 this circumstance as a disappointment, indeed, 

 sufficiently severe to himself, to whom his band 

 looked up for the protection of their interests, but 

 without attaching any blame to us. " The world 



