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** As you and your Indian companions are fit- 1770. 
<« ted out with every thing that we think is necef- Sara 
“‘fary, (or at leaft as many ufeful articles as the 
“nature of travelling in thofe parts will admit 
** of,) you are hereby defired to proceed on your 
** journey as foon as poffible; and your prefent 
guide has promifed to take great care of you, 
<< and conduct you out and home with all conve- 
** nient {peed. 
© T conclude with my beft withes for your 
“health and happinels, together with a fuc- 
** cefsful journey and a quick return in fafety. 
<¢ Amen. 
** (Signed) Mosrs Norton, Governor. 
«¢ Dated at Prince of Wales’s Fort, 
«¢ sth December, 1770.” 
On the feventh of December I fet out on my th. 
third journey; and the weather, confidering 
the feafon of the year, was for fome days pretty 
mild. One of Matonabbee’s wives being ill, oc- 
cafioned us to walk fo flow, that it was the thir- 
teenth before we arrived at Seal River; at which 
time two men and their wives left us, whofe loads, 
whenadded to thofe of the remainder of my crew, 
made a very material difference, efpecially as 
Matonabbee’s wife was fo ill as to be obliged to be 
| hauled on a fledge. 
| Finding deer and all other game very {carce, 
and not knowing how long it might be before 
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