[GARRY ] DIARY OF NICHOLAS GARRY 75 

PRINCE RUPERT. 
From Lely’s portrait. 
DIARY OF NICHOLAS GARRY. 
The Hudson’s Bay Company having made an Arrangement with 
the North-West Company,’ it became necessary that one of the Directors 
of the former Company should accompany Mr. Simon McGillivray, a 
Partner of the latter, to Montreal and from thence to proceed thro’ the 
Indian Country to Fort William, and from thence visiting the different 
Posts belonging as well to the H. B. as to the N. W. and the Red River 
Settlement to proceed to York Fort, and from thence to embark for 
England. Myself being the only single Man in the Direction it became 
imperative on Me that I should not hesitate to undertake this long and 
tedious Journey—but so many circumstances combined to render it 
desirable to Me, that I little considered (or if I did reflect on them I did 
not allow them to influence me) the Privations and Difficulties 1 must 
necessarily be exposed to. Thus I accepted the Appointment, and on 
the 29th March, 1821, I left London in Company with Mr. Angus 
Bethune, a Partner of the North-West Company. 
March 30th (1821).—Arrived at Liverpool. In the morning Mr. 
John McLaughlin, another Partner of the Company, joined us at the 
Waterloo Hotel. Distance from London, 207 Miles. 
1 By Deed Poll dated Mar. 26, 1821. See the Great Company, Beckles Willson 
(London, 1900) vol. II., p. 217. Also Appendix A to this diary. 


