INTRODUCTION. 
“ Tt is fincerely recommended to you and your 
* companions to treat the natives with civility, 
** fo as not to give them any room for complaint 
“ or difguft, as they have ftrict orders not to give 
“ you the leaft offence, but are to aid and affift 
*¢ you in any matter you may requeft of them 
“© for the benefit of the undertaking. 
“If any Indians you may meet, that are com- 
‘*¢ ing to the Fort, fhould be willing to truft you 
‘¢ with either food or clothing, make your agree- 
*‘ ment for thofe commodities, and by them fend 
“* me a letter, fpecifying the quantity of each ar- 
** ticle, and they fhall be paid according to your 
“agreement. And, according to the Company’s 
‘* orders, you are to correfpond with me, or the 
$¢ Chief at Prince of Wales’s Fort for the time be- 
** ing, at all opportunities : And as you have ma- 
** thematical inftruments with you, you are to 
** fend me, or the Chief for the time being, an 
** account of what latitude and longitude you 
** may be in at fuch and fuch periods, together 
“* with the heads of your proceedings ; which ac- 
** counts are to be remitted to the Company by 
*‘the return of their fhips*. 
*“3dly, The Indians who are now appointed 
** your guides, are to condué¢t you to the borders 
‘of the Athapufcow { Indians country, where 
** Captain 
* No convenient opportunity offered during my laft Journey, except one 
on the 22d March 1771; and as nothing materia! had happened during that 
part of my Journey, I thought there was not any neceflity for tending an 
extract of my Journal; I therefore only fenta Letterto the Governor, in- 
forming him of my fituation with refpeét to latitude and longitude, and 
fome account of the ufage which I received from the natives, &c. 
+ By miftake in my former Journal and Draft called Arathapefcow. 
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