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clothing, one tent, a sufficiency of ammunition for 

 journey, and the officer's journals. I bad only 

 blanket, which was carried for me, and two pai 

 .shoes. The offer was now made for any of the n 

 who fell themselves too weak to proceed, to rem 

 with the officers, but none of them accept d it. Mi- 

 chel alone felt sonic inclination to do bo. After wo 

 had united in thanksgiving and prayers to Almighty 

 G 1,1 separated from my companions, deeply fcfflic 

 thai a train of melancholy circumstances should h 

 demanded of me the severe trial of parting from friends 

 in such a condition, who had become endeared to me 

 by their constant kindness, and co-operation, and a 

 participation of numerous sufferings. This trial I 

 could not have hem induced to undergo, hut tor the 

 reasons tiny had so strongly urged the day b< fore, I i 

 which my own judgmenl assented, and for the san- 

 guine hope 1 fell of either finding a supply of pro- 

 q • Fori Enterprize, or meeting the Indians in 

 tic- immediate vicinity of that p] irding to my 



arrangements with Mr. Wentzel and Akaitcho. I' 

 viously to our starting, Peltier and Benoit i 



their promises, to return to them with provision, if 

 any should he found at the house, or t the 



Indians to them, if any were met. 



itly as Mr. Hood was exhausted, and, indeed, 

 incapable as he must have proved, ol encountering the 



