ne 
ee is Anns 
NORTHERN OCEAN. 
by them Clalte-ad-dee. 
By the firft of March we began to leave the fine 
level country of the Athapufcows, and again to 
approach the ftony mountains or hills which 
bound the Northern Indian country. Moofe and 
beaver {till continued to be plentiful; but no buf- 
faloes could be feen after the twenty-ninth of Fe- 
bruary. 
As we were continuing our courfe to the Eaft 
South Eaft, on the fourteenth we difcovered the 
tracks of more ftrangers, and the next day came 
up with them. Among thofe Indians was the 
man who had carried a letter for me in March 
one thoufand feven hundred and feventy-one, to 
the Chief at Prince of Wales’s Fort, and to which 
he had brought an anfwer, dated the twenty- 
firft of June. When this Indian received the 
letter from me, it was very uncertain what route 
we fhould take in our return from the Copper 
River, and, in all probability, he himfelf had not 
then determined on what {pot he would pafs the 
prefent winter ; confequently our meeting each 
other was merely accidental. 
Thefe Indians having obtained a few furrs in the 
courfe of the Winter, joined our party, which 
now confifted of twenty tents, containing in the 
whole about two hundred perfons; and indeed 
our company had not been much lefg during the 
whofe winter. 
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| only ufed by the Northern tribes, and is called yy72, 
March. 
rit. 
14th. 
