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by Boileau and Black-meat at Chipewyan, but they 

 differed in the descriptions of the The infor- 



mation, however, collected from both sources was very 



ue and unsatisfactory. None of his tribehad I 

 more than three days' march along the Bea-coast to 



ward of the river's mouth. 

 the water was unusually high thi n, the 



Indian guides recommended our going by a shorter 

 route to the Copper-Mine River than that they had 

 first 1 to Mr. Wentzel, and tb 



for the change, that the rein-deer would be 

 aer found upon this tract. They then drew a chart 

 of the proposed route on the floor with charcoal, ex- 

 hibiting a chain of twenty-five small lakes extending 

 towards the north, about one-half of them conne 

 by a river which flows into Slave Lake, near !' 



.ides, named Keskarrah, 

 drew t! r-Mine River, running through the 



I -vrly direction towards the Great 



B ti Like, and thru northerly to the sea. The Other 

 sruide drew the river in a straight line to the sea from 

 the above mentioned place, but after - m ■ dis] 

 admitted tl. if the first delineation. '. 



latter was elder brother to Akaitcho, anil he said that 

 he had accompanied Mr. II t his journey, and 



though very young at the time, still rememl 

 many of the circumstances, and particularly the mi-- 



