106 
17st. 
-~——~ chafed at the Factory ; to my certain knowledge - 
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cient for our fupport during our journey out and © 
A JOURNEY TO THE 
he diftributed was all his own, which he had pur- 
he bartered one hundred and fifty martins’ fkins 
for powder only; befides a great number of bea- 
ver, and other furrs, for thot, ball, iron-work, 
and tobacco, purpofely to give away among his 
countrymen; as he had certainly as many of thefe 
articles given to him as were, in his opinion, fuffi- 
home. 
Matonabbee’s canoe having been repaired, on 
the twentieth we left Clowey, and proceeded 
Northward. ‘That morning a {mall gang of ftran- 
gers joined us, who informed my guide, that Cap- 
tain Keelfhies was within a day’s walk to the 
Southward. Keelfhies was the man by whom I 
had {ent a letter to Prince of Wales’s Fort, from 
Cathawhachaga, in the beginning of July one 
thoufand feven hundred and feventy ; but not 
long after that, having the misfortune to break 
my quadrant, I was obliged to return to the Fort 
a fecond time; and though we faw many fmokes, 
and {poke with feveral Indians on my return that 
year, yet he and I miffed each other on the barren 
ground, and I had not feen or heard of him fince 
that time. 
As Matonabbee was defirous that I fhould re-— 
ceive my letters, and alfo the goods I had written 
for, he difpatched two of his young men to bring 
them. We continued our journey to the North- 
ward; andthe next day faw feveral large {mokes 
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