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winter of abundance, and the excellent condition 

 in which the store was left in spring. I had 

 enjoyed much pleasure in his society, and parted 

 from him with regret. 



The remainder of the voyage down was per- 

 formed in company with Mr. M'Pherson, who was 

 going down to Canada on furlough with his family. 

 At Norway House, where we arrived on the 13th 

 of August, the men of my party who had been 

 engaged there in 1847 were discharged, and the 

 Europeans were sent down to York Factory to go 

 to England in the Company's ship. During the 

 time these men were under my command not a 

 single act of disobedience occurred. Crews better 

 fitted for heavy portage work, and for the ordinary 

 duties of a winter's residence in the north, might 

 doubtless have been selected in the country, but 

 none that I could have depended upon with so 

 much confidence in adverse circumstances. Dore 

 and Cousins, the two younger seamen, who were 

 extremely serviceable from their activity, intelli- 

 gence, and willingness to perform any duty that 

 was required, have gone again on the same errand 

 to Beering's Straits. 



From Norway House I proceeded to Canada in a 

 brigade of three light canoes, manned by voyagers 

 who were returning thither at the close of their en- 

 gagements in the country. On the 14th of Sep- 



