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i the pemmican. The repair of our canoes •■ 

 completed this evening. Previous to embarkin 

 issued an order that no rapid Bhould in future be 

 descended until the bowmen had examined it, and 

 decided apoo its being Bafe to run. Wherever the 



: danger was to be apprehended, or the crew had 

 to disembark for the purpose of lightening the can 

 tlie ammunition, guns and instrumei 

 to 1"' put out and carried along the bank : that wo 



at be provided with the meat ; ir- 



of any accident befalling the can 

 fonr in the morning of July ' embark d 



and Led a succession of very agitated ra] 



but took the precaution of landing the articles m n- 

 tioned yesterday, wherever there appeared any I 

 notwithstanding all our precautions the leadin 

 struck with great force against a stone, and the bark 

 was split, but this injury was easily repaired, and we 



retted only the loss of time. At eleven we came 

 t, an expansion or the river where the current ran 



h less force, and an accumulati m of drifl ice h id, 

 in consequence, barred the channel ; which the cai 

 and c urgoes were carried over. The ice in many pi i 

 adhered to the banks, and I in wid 



several feel thick over thi i, which had hollowed 



il bi Death. < In tl e p pie 



were embarking from our <>( these L< udd< nly 



