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one by an accidental lameness, the other by the 

 fear of meeting alone some of the Dog-Rib 

 Indians. 



We were here furnished with a canoe by Mr. 

 Smith, and a bowman, to act as our guide ; and 

 having left Fort Chipewyan on the 5th, we arrived, 

 on the 4th of July, at Norway House. Finding 

 at this place, that canoes were about to go down 

 to Montreal, I gave all our Canadian voyagers 

 their discharges, and sent them by those vessels, 

 furnishing them with orders on the Agent of the 

 Hudson's Bay Company, for the amount of their 

 wages. We carried Augustus down to York 

 Factory, where we arrived on the 14th of July, 

 and were received with every mark of attention 

 and kindness by Mr. Simpson, the Governor, 

 Mr. M'Tavish, and, indeed, by all the officers of 

 the United Companies. And thus terminated our 

 long, fatiguing, and disastrous travels in North 

 America, having journeyed by water and by 

 land (including our navigation of the Polar Sea,) 

 five thousand five hundred and fifty miles. 



