NORTHERN OCEAN, 
The ftrangers who had joined us on the twen- 
ty-fourth informed us, that all were well at Prince 
of Wales’s Fort when they left it lait; which. ac- 
cording to their account of the Moons pait fince, 
muft have been about the fifth of November one 
thoufand feven hundred and feventy-one. Thefe 
ftrangers only remained in our company one night 
before the Leader and part of his crew left us, 
and proceeded on their journey to the North 
Weltward; but a few of them -having procured 
fome furrs in the early part of the Winter, join- 
ed our party, with an intent to accompany us to 
the Factory. 
Having a good fiock of dried meat, fat, &'c. 
prepared in the beft manner for carriage, on the 
twenty-eighth we fhaped our courfe in the South 
Eaft quarter, and proceeded at 2 much greater 
rate than we had lately done, as little or no time 
was now loftin hunting. ‘The next day we faw 
the tracks of fome ftrangers; and though I did 
not perceive any of them myfelf, fome of my 
companions were at the trouble of fearching for 
them, and finding them to be poor inoffenfive 
people, plundered them not only of the few furrs 
which they had, but took aifo one of their young 
women from them. 
Every additional act of violence committed by 
my companions on the poor and difirefled, ferv- 
ed to increafe my indignation and diflike ; this 
laft act, however, difpleafed me more than all 
their former actions, becaufe it was committed 
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273 
1772. 
An 
February. 
28th. 
