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enabled us to start down with our canoes, loaded 

 with our tools and game In five days we arrived 

 at my father's residence, where we divided our skins, 

 venison, and tallow, giving to Wilson and Knapp a 

 few more than an even proportion of the skins, as 

 they had furnished a greater share of the supplies. 

 They also took the two large canoes, and we the 

 small one, and a rifle worth thirty dollars. 



After our return that winter, we were very suc- 

 cessful in hunting, my brother and myself killing 

 fortv-seven deer fifteen bears and two elk. 



