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days. M .ril this communication with more 



temper than the pi though he immedial 



reason for his declining i<> go, that '• the 

 Indiana must now procure a sufficient quantity of 

 deer-skins for winter clothing lor thru, and 



dresses for the Canadians, who would need them if 

 they hail to travel in the winter." Finding him 

 aver.-.' to j roi eed, and feeling, at the 



rjtial his continuance with us was, not only to our 

 future bu •• o to our i 'he 



winter ; I closed the i om »ti n here, inten Qg to 

 propose to him next morni e modification oi 



plan, which might meet his approbation. S ion after 

 we were gone, however, he informed Mr. Wenl 

 with whom he was in the habit of speaking confi- 

 dentially, thai a his advice was n< glected, his pr< pence 

 was useless, and he Bhould, thet turn t i Fort 



!' ividence with his hunters, after he had collec 

 Borne winter provision torus. Mr. Wentzel having 

 reported this to me, the night was passed in •. 



iety, and after weighing all the arguments th.it 

 presented themselves to my mind, 1 ram.- reluctai 

 to tin' determination of relinquishing the intention "t* 

 ;■ any distance down tin- river this 

 The month of S pteml very 



disagreeable weather. The temperature of the atm 

 phere ranged between 39 c and 31° during the first 



