in tin Arctic Regions. r.\ 



our advance, we should, in all probability, 

 unable to return to it, and should have to travel 

 across the barren grounds towards I iblished 



posl ; in which case 1 told him that we should cer- 

 tainly gO first to Fort Enterprise, expecting that he 

 would cause the Indians to place a supply of dried 

 provision there, as Boon as possible after their arrival 

 in its vicinity. My instructions to him were, that he 

 Bhould proceed to Point Lake, transport the canoe that 

 was left then- to Fort Enterprise, where he was 

 embark the instruments and books, and carry them to 

 Slave Lake, and to forward the box containing the 

 journals, &c, with the present despatches by the next 

 winter packet to England. But before he quitted 

 Port Enterprise, he was to be assured of the intention 

 of the Indians to lay up the provision we required, 

 and if they should be in want of ammunition for that 

 purpose, to procure it if possible from Fort Proi idi □ 

 or the other torts in Slave Lake, and send it imme- 

 diately to them by the hunters who accompanied him 

 thither. I [uested him to in from 



Akaitcho and the other leading Indians, where their 

 different parties would be hunting in the monthi 

 September and October, and to have this information 

 in a letter at Fort Enterprise, for our guidance in 

 finding them, as we should require their assistai 

 Mr. Went/.. 1 «eas furnished with h list of the sb 



