NORTHERN OCEAN. 
at a great diftance to the Eaftward on the barren 
ground, which were fuppoled to be made by fome 
parties of Indians bound to Prince of Wales’s Fort 
with furrs and other commodities for trade. 
On the twenty-fecond and twenty third, we 
proceeded to the North, at the rate of fourteen or 
fifteen miles a day; and in the evening of the lat- 
ter, got clear of all the woods, and lay on the bar- 
ren ground. ‘The fame evening the two young 
men who were fent for my letters, &c. returned, 
and told me that Keelfhies had promifed to join 
us in a few days, and deliver the things to me 
with his own hand. 
The twenty-fourth proved bad and rainy wea- 
ther, fo that we only walked about feven miles, 
when finding a few blafted {lumps of trees, we 
pitched our tents. It was well wedid fo, for to- 
wards night we had exceflively bad weather, with 
loud thunder, {trong lightning, and heavy rain, 
attended with a very hard gale of wind from the 
South Weft; toward the next morning, howe- 
ver, the wind veered round to the North Weft, 
and the weather became intenfely cold and frofly. 
We walked that day about eight miles to the 
Northward, when we were obliged to put up, 
being almoft benumbed with cold. There we 
found a few dry ftumps, as we had done the day 
before, which ferved us for fewel*. 
The 
* I have obferved, during my feveral journies in thofe parts, that all the 
way to the North of Seal River the edge of the wood is faced with old wi- 
thered 
22d, 
24th. 
