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which we never neglected, when stationary on the sab- 

 bath. 



The united length of the portages we have crossed, 

 since leaving Fort Providence, is twenty-one statute 

 miles and a half ; and as our men had to traverse 

 each portage four times, with a load of one hundred 

 and eighty pounds, and return three times light, they 

 walked in the whole upwards of one hundred and fifty 

 miles. The total length of our voyage from Chipew- 

 yan is five hundred and fifty three-miles.* 



A fire was made on the south side of the river to 

 inform the chief of our arrival, which spreading be Co re 

 a strong wind, caught the whole wood, and we were 

 completely enveloped in a cloud of smoke for the three 

 following days. 



On the next morning our voyagers were divided into 

 two parties, the one to cut the wood for the building 

 of a store house, and the other to fetch the meat as 

 fast as the hunters procured it. An interpreter was 

 sent with Keskarrah, the guide, to search for the In- 

 dians who had made the fire Been on Saturday, from 

 whom we might obtain some supplies of provi 



Statute Ulloa, 



* Stony and Slave Rivers 260 



Slave Lake 107 



fellow-Knife River I 



between the source of the yellow- 

 Knife Ritei and Fort Enterprise ... 29.6 



668 



