In the Arctic Regions. 



C II APT Ell IV. 



Os the day of our arrival at Fort Chipe- 

 wvan we culled apoD Mr. BlacDonald, the gentleman 

 in charge of the Bndson'a Bay Establishment, called 

 Fori Wedderburne, and delivered to him Oovernor 

 Williams's circular letter, which desired that everyas- 

 Bistance Bhonld be given to further our progress, and a 

 statement of the requisitions which we should have to 



make tni hifi 1 



Our first object was to obtain Borne certain informa- 

 tion respecting our future route ; and accordingly we 

 received from one of the North-West Company's in- 

 terpreters, named Beaulieu, a half-breed, who had 

 been brought up amongst the Dog-ribbed and Copper 

 Indians, Borne satisfactory information, which we after- 

 wards found tolerably correct, respecting the mode of 

 reaching the Copper-mine River, which he had de- 

 scended a considerable way, as well as of the course of 

 that river to its month, The Copper Indians, how- 

 ever, he said, would be able to give us more accurate 



