302 A JOURNEY TO THE © 
1772. afternoon the weather grew more moderate, fo | 
Se es we were enabled to ferry over the river; | 
after which we refumed our journey, and at night — 
pitched our tents in fome tufts of willows in | 
fight of the woods of Po-co-thee-kis-co River, 
at which we arrived early in the morning of the | 
twenty-eighth; but the wind again blowing very 
hard in the North Eaft quarter, it was the after- | 
agth, noon of the twenty-ninth before we could attempt 
to crofs it. 
Jui at the time we were crofling the South 
branch of Po-co-thee-kis-co River, the Indians — 
that were fent from Ege River with a letter to 
the Chief at Churchill, joined us on their return, | 
and brought a little tobacco and fome other ar- | 
ticles a I had defired. Though it was late | 
in the afternoon before we had all crofied the ri- 
ver, yet we walked that evening till after ten | 
o’clock, and then put up on one of the Goofe- | 
hunting Iflands, as they are generally called, 
about ten miles from the Factory. The next 
morning I arrived in good health at Prince of | 
Wales’s Fort, after having been abfent eighteen | 
months and twenty-three days on this laft expe- | 
dition; but from my fir fetting out with Cap- | 
tain Chawchinaha, it was two years feven monte | 
and twenty-four days. | 
- Though my difcoveries are not likely to prove | 
of any material advantage to the Nation at large, _ 
or indeed to the Hudfon’s Bay Company, yet I | 
have the pleafure to think that I have fully com- 
plied | 
