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wood, in which we could pitch our tents, we 1771. 
were enabled to make a better defence againift the ~~” 
weather, than we had had it in our power to do 
for fome time paft. 
On the tenth of November, we arrived at the 10th. 
edge of the main woods; at which time the 
Indians began to make proper fledges, fome fnow- 
fhoes, &5°c. after which we proceeded again to 
the South Weft. But deer and all other kinds 
of game were fo fcarce the whole way, that, ex- 
cept a few partridges, nothing was killed by any 
in company: we had, neverthelefs, plenty of 
the provifion which had been prepared at Point 
~ Lake. 
On the twentieth of the fame month, we ar- oth. 
rived at Anaw’d Whoie, or the Indian Lake. 
In our way we crofled part of Methy Lake, and 
walked near eighty miles on a {mall river belong- 
ing to it, which empties itfelf into the Great 
Athapufcow Lake*. While we were walking 
on the above little river, the Indians fet fifhing- 
nets under the ice every night; but their labour 
was attended with fo little fuccefs, that all they 
caught ferved only as a delicacy, or to make a 
Tittle change in our diet ; for the quantity was too 
trifling to occafion any confiderable faving of our 
| other provifions. 
| Anaw’d Lake, though fo {mall as not to exceed 
| twenty miles wide in the broadeft part, is cele- 
. P 2 brated 
* Thecourfe of 'this river is nearly South Weft. 
