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friends, Dr. Kichardson and Mr. Hood, who arrived in 

 perfect health with two canoes, having made a very 

 expeditious journey from Cumberland, notwithstand- 

 ing they were detained near three days in consequence 

 of the melancholy loss of one of their bowmen, by 

 the upsetting of a canoe in a strong rapid ; but, as 

 the occurrences of this journey, together with the 

 mention of some other circumstances that happened 

 previous to their departure from Cumberland, which 

 have been extracted from Mr. Hood's narrative, will 

 appear in the following chapter, it will be unnecessa- 

 ry to enter farther into these points now. 



The zeal and talent displayed by Dr. Richardson 

 and Mr. Hood in the discharge of their several duties, 

 since my separation from them, drew forth my highest 

 approbation. These gentlemen had brought all the 

 stores they could procure from the establishments at 

 Cumberland and at Isle a la Crosse ; and at the latter 

 place they bad received ten bags of pemmican from 

 tli-' North-West Company, which proved to be mouldy 

 and so totally unlit for use that it was left at the Me- 

 thye portage. They got none from the Hudson's Bay 

 post. The voyagers belonging to tli.it Company," 

 being destitute of provisions, had eaten what was in- 

 to aded for us. In consequence of these untoward 

 circumstances, the canoes arrived with only one's day 

 supply of this most essential article. The prospect 



