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7. Sunday. Took my departure from Three-Beacon Island and 
paddled 12 Miles W.S.W.; then came to the River. The Natives are 
divided as to the name of this River; however, it cannot with propriety 
be called Apet-Sepee, or Steel River.! We paddled 12 miles up it. The 
Banks are hills and dales on which grow small pines. The River 12 
poles wide; the water very deep in some places, and in other places not 
six inches water and many Islands. Deer-Lake is large and deep, en- 
compassed with tall woods of Pines and Birch trees. 
8. Monday. Paddled 26 Miles up the River W.N.W.; Islands 
and Rocks all the way. In the evening, left the River, and put up on an 
Island in Christianaux Lake.? 
9. Tuesday. Took my departure from Egg Island, and paddled 
26 miles S.W. & S.W.b.S. in the Lake; passed 22 woody Islands, and 
put up on one for the night. 
10. Wednesday. Took my departure from Pike Islands, and 
Paddled 25 miles W.S.W. until we came to a river on the West side the 
Lake, where we put up for the night. 
11. Thursday. Took my departure from Shad Fall and paddled 
two miles S.W. up the River, when it began to blow with Rain, which 
obliged us to put up. Here twenty Canoes of Natives passed us on their 
way to York Fort, with whom I sent a letter to Mr. James Isham,* the 
Chief. 
12. Friday. A continuance of rain; paddled none. Some drink- 
ing and others fishing. Fish is our daily food. 

1This river, he says, cannot with propriety be called Steel river. He 
has, in fact, now left the main stream, which leads up to Oxford lake, and 
is ascending a small branch, running from the west into Knee lake. He is 
about to traverse a route from the Hayes or Steel river across to the Nelson, 
which there is reason to believe was used for a time by H. B. C. men, and 
then abandoned for the route through Oxford lake and by way of the Echi- 
mamish to Little Playgreen lake. The route followed by Hendry has never 
been explored by officers of the Geological Survey, but, as mentioned in the 
introduction, information in regard to it has lately been communicated to 
Mr. Owen O’Sullivan of the Survey by Rev. Mr. Banel, a Roman Catholic 
missionary, whose field covers much of the unexplored region between the 
Nelson and Hayes. A note at the beginning of the Journal—presumably by 
Andrew Graham—says: ‘This man did not go up the road Mr. Tomison 
goes.” 'Tomison built Hudson House, on the North Saskatchewan, and is 
known to have accompanied David Thompson from York Factory to Man- 
chester House in July, 1787, by the Oxford Lake and Echimamish route— 
which strengthens the argument for a different route in Hendry’s case. 
2? Cocking’s Pimochickomow Lake. In the Cree vocabulary in Lieut. 
Edward Chappell’s “ Narrative of a Voyage to Hudson’s Bay,’ Pim-mith-e- 
hick-oc-mow is defined as, A lake broader than long. 
’ Then factor at York. 
