1769. 
ee med 
November. 
6th. 
Sth, 
A JOURNEY TO THE 
leave us.—Begin our return to the factory; kill a. 
few partridges, the firft meal we had had for feveral 
days.—Villany of one of the home indians and his 
wife, who was a Northern Indian woman.—Ar- 
rive at Seal River, kill two deer; partridges plenty. 
— Meet a frrange Northern Indian, accompany him 
to his tent, ufage received there ; my Indians affift in 
killing fome beaver.—Proceed toward home, and 
arrive at the Fort. 
AVING made every neceflary arrangement 
for my departure on the fixth of Novem- 
ber, I took leave of the Governor, and my other 
friends, at Prince of Wales’s Fort, and began 
my journey, under the falute of feven cannon. 
The weather at that time being very mild, 
made it but indifferent hauling*, and all my 
crew being heavy laden, occafioned us to make 
but fhort days journeys; however, on the eighth, 
we crofled the North branch of Po-co-ree-kif-co 
River, and that night put up in a {mall tuft of 
woods; which is between it and Seal River. In 
the night, one of the Northern Indians defert- 
ed; and as all the reft of my crew were heavy 
laden, I was under the neceflity of hauling the 
fledge he had left, which however was not very 
heavy, as it fcarcely exceeded fixty pounds. 
The weather ftill continued very fine and plea- 
fant: we directed our courfe to the Weft North 
Wett, 
* The colder the weather is, the eafier the fledges flide-over the fhow. 
