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25th.—Fine weather. Started at 3 a.m.—arrived at Oxford House! 
about 8 o’clock. Thence proceeded thro’ the Holy Lake? sailing most of 
the day with a side wind. Got our cargoes over the first portage in the 
Weepin a panis* and encamped about 4 past 8 p.m. Slight rain. 
26th, Thursday.—In the evening we had a tremendous shower of 
rain with much thunder and lightening. Men began to get up the Boats 
about + past 2 a.m. Made another portage in the Weepin a panis— 
passed thro’ a Lake, then a grassy River and another Lake and cleared 
the first portage in Hell’s Gate or Hill’s Gate. Encamped at the 2nd 
Hauling Place. 
27th.—Slight showers of rain. Cleared the 2nd Portage in Hell’s 
Gate5 Passed thro’ a small Lake and arrived at the White Falls® about 
9 a.m. got over our boats and cargoes by 8 o’clock—loaded the boats 
and encamped. 
28th.—Fine weather. Started at 4 past 1 a.m. arrived at the 
painted stone? about 8. Found the upper end of the Itchenemanines® 
rather shoal. Encamped near the end of the River at 10 p.m. 

1A Hudson’s Bay Co. post at the outlet of Holey lake; Franklin says that, 
though, formerly a post of some consequence, it, “at present [1819], exhibits un- 
equivocal signs of decay. The Indians have of late years been gradually deserting 
the low or swampy country and ascending the Saskatchewan where animals are 
more abundant” (Franklin, First Journey, 37). 
2 Correctly, Holey or Hole lake; so named from a portion of the lake that has 
not been sounded. This portion of the lake—near the outlet—is called ‘ The Deep 
Hole.’ 
5A local name for Hayes river above Holey lake. It is a “ narrow, 
grassy river which runs parallel to the [Holey] lake for a considerable distance and 
forms its south bank into a narrow peninsula” (Franklin, First Journey, 38). 
‘ Lower Hill Gates portage. Between Holey and Windy lakes, he passed the 
following portages: Lower, Moore, Upper and'Crooked Spout. Between Windy and 
Whitewater lakes, he passed Lower Hill Gates, Upper Hill Gates and Whitefall por- 
tages. ‘ Hill Gates’ is the “name imposed upon a romantic defile whose rocky walls 
rising perpendicularly to the height of sixty or eighty feet, hem in the stream for 
three-quarters of a mile, in many places so narrowly that there is a want of room to 
ply the oars.” (Franklin, First Journey, 38-9). 
5 Upper Hill Gates portage. 
5 Robinson portage near outlet of Whitewater lake. 
7 Painted-stone portage. ‘The painted stone is a low rock, ten or twelve yards 
across, remarkable for the marshy streams which arise on each side of it, taking 
different courses,” on the one side to Hayes river and on the other to Nelson river. 
“Tt is said that there was formerly a stone placed near the centre of this portage on 
which figures were annually traced and offerings deposited by the Indians”’ (Franklin, 
First Journey, 40-1). 
$ Echimamish river, a tributary of Nelson river. 
