110 THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
9th. Tuesday.—Fine weather. Start as usual. Proceeded over 
Battures and afterwards thro’ a point of woods which is one mire from 
beginning to end and much encumbered with fallen wood. Encamped 
at the end of the Battures next to the last point of woods—3 p.m. 
10th.—Fine weather. Started at 7 a.m. and arrived at the end of 
the Portage about 4 past 10. Found J. W. Dease, Esq., and family 
here—people occupied the remainder of the day making paddles &e. 
11th.—Fine weather. Left the Portage between 9 and 10 a.m. 
and having travelled with a swift current all day encamped at + before 
6 about 5 miles below the Dalles des Morts—killed a fine fat Bear to-day. 
12th.—Thick fog all day. We were on the water before 5 a.m. 
Entered the lst Lake about 3. Encamped at $ past 6 p.m. 
13th.—Foggy morning but fine day. Started at 4 past 4 a.m. 
Paddled thro’ the Ist Lake! (about 4 of it) down the River and encamped 
a little way in the 2nd Lake? at 5 p.m. Gummed one of the boats. Saw 
Indians. 
14th.—Had a shower of rain but day generally fine. Embarked 2 
a.m. Proceeded thro’ the 2nd Lake and re-entered the River about 2 
p.m. Encamped some distance below McGillivray’s River* at 5 o’clock. 
15th.—Fine weather. Started about 4 a.m. and reached Fort 
Colville by noon. 
16th.—Fine weather. People employed this day gumming their 
boats. One they take over the Kettle Falls portage and one is already 
there left in summer. The latter requires pitching all over. Get our 
baggage transported in carts below the Portage. 
17th.—Fine weather. One of our Boats was not finished pitching 
till near eleven o’clock when we embarked with crews and cargoes as 
follows: viz. 
No. 1 No. 2 
3 bags Corn Crew 5 bags Potatoes N.P. Crew 
1 keg Gum 1 M. Otretance F. 1 pack Parfleches 1 P. Bouche F. 
1 Pack Leather 2 P. Karangangate S. 1 keg Gum 2 Louis Iro- 
1 bale Straps 4 Middlemen and Boy 1 Cassette quois 8. 
2 Cassettes 1 Sugar & Flour 6 Middlemen 
1 do Papers Passengers 1 case 
1 Trunk Messrs. Todd & E. E. 2 bags Pemican | Provs. Passengers 
1 Portmanteau 1 bag Potatoes f A. R. McLeod, : 
3 bags pemican | Provs. ; 2 1 box 3 pigs & Barley Esq. 
2 do Potatoes &e. { Family 
2 case and basket 

1 Upper Arrow lake. 
? Lower Arrow lake. 
5 Kootenay river. 
