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day recommenced our journey, and were much amused 

 by the novelty of the salute given at our departure, 

 the guns being principally fired by the half-breed wo- 

 men in th e of the men. Our course was di- 

 rected to the end of the lake, and for a short distance 

 alone a .small river ; wc then crossed the woods to the 

 Beaver River, which we found to he narrow and vrery 

 serpentine, having moderately high hanks. AVe en- 

 camped about one mile and a half further up among 

 poplars. 'I'll 1, next day we proceeded along tin- river ; 

 it was winding, and about two hundred yards broad. 

 We passed the mouths of two rivers whose waters it 

 receives ; the latter one, we were informed, is a chan- 

 nel by which the Indians go to the Lesser Slave Lake. 

 The hanks of the river became higher as weadvai 

 and were furnished with pines, poplars, and willows. 



Though the weather was very cold, we traveled more 

 comfortably than at any preceding time since our de- 

 parture from Cumberland, as we were enabled, by 

 having light carioles, to ride nearly the whole day, 

 and to he warmly covered up with a buffalo rohe. 

 Mr. Bllieod, of th" North-West Company, joined as. 

 lie had kindly broughl Borne things fromGi 

 which our Bledges could not cany. Pursuing our 

 route along the river, we reached at an early hour the 

 upper extremity of the "Grand Rapid," where the ice 



was so rOUgh that the carioles and Bledges had to be 



