300 A JOURNEY TO THE 
1772. On the eighteenth we arrived at Egg River, 
“a7 from which place, at the folicitation of my guide 
xbth. Matonabbee, I fent aletter poft-hafte to the Chief 
at Prince of Wales’s Fort, advifing him of my 
being fo far advanced on my return. The wea- 
ther at this time was very bad and rainy, which 
caufed us to lofe near a whole day ; but upon 
the fine weather returning, we again proceeded _ 
at our ufual rate of eighteen or twenty miles a. 
day, fometimes more or lefs, according as the’ 
road, the weather, and other circumftances, 
would admit. 
Deer now began to be not quite fo plentiful as" 
they had been, though we met with enough for 
prefent ufe, which was all we wanted, each per- 
fon having as much dried meat as he could con- 
veniently carry, befides his furrs and other necef- 
fary baggage. | 
aéth. Early in the morning of the twenty-fixth we 
arrived at Seal River*; but the wind blowing 
right up it, made fo great a fea, that we were — 
obliged 
* Mr.» Jeremie is very incorreét in his account of the fituation of this 
River, and its courfe. Itis not eafy to guefs, whether the Copper or 
Dog-ribbed Indians be the nation he calls Plat/cotex de Chiens: if it be the 
former, he is much miftaken; for they have abundance of beaver, and 
other animals of the furr kind, in their country: and if the latter, 
he is equally wrong to affert that they have copper-mines in their 
country ; for neither copper nor any other kind of metal is in ufe among 
them, 
Mr, Jeremie was not too modeft when he faid, (fee Dobb’s Account of 
Hudfon’s bay, p. 19.) “he could not fay any thing pofitively in going 
farther 
