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A JOURNEY TO THE 
tage and refolution to vifit the Athapufcow Indi- 
ans for feveral years fucceflively ; and at length, 
by an uniform difplay of his pacific difpofition, — 
and by rendering a long train of good offices to 
thofe Indians, in return for their treachery and 
perfidy, he was fo happy as to be the fole inftru- 
ment of not only bringing about a lafting peace, 
but alfo of eftablifhing a trade and reciprocal in- 
tereft between the two nations. | 
' After having performed this great work, he 
was prevailed upon to vifit the Copper-mine Ri- — 
ver, in company with a famous leader, called 
T-dat-le-aza; and it was from the report of thofe 
two men, that a journey to that part was propof- 
ed to the Hudfon’s Bay Company by the late Mr. 
Mofes Norton, in one thoufand feven hundred 
and fixty-nine. In one thoufand feven hundred 
and feventy he was engaged as the principal guide 
on that expedition; which he performed with 
greater punctuality, and more to my fatisfaction, 
than perhaps any other Indian in all that country 
would have done. At his return to the Fort in 
one thoufand feven hundred and feventy-two, he 
was made head of all the Northern Indian nation; — 
and continued -to render great fervices to the 
Company during his life, by bringing a greater 
quantity of furrs to their Factory at Churchill | 
River, than any other Indian ever did, or 
ever will do. His. laft vifit to Prince of Wales’s | 
Fort was in the Spring of one thoufand feven _ 
hundred and eighty-two, and he intended to have | 
repeated — 
