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corned us in the most kind manner, immediately gave 

 us changes of dress, and did every thing in his power 

 to make us comfortable. 



Our sensations, on heing once more in a comfortable 

 dwelling, after the series of hardships and miseries we 

 had experienced, will be much better imagined than 

 any language of mine can describe them. Our first 

 act was again to return our grateful praises to the 

 Almighty for the manifold instances of his mercy to- 

 wards us. Having found here some articles, which 

 Mr. Back had sent across from Moose-deer Island, I 

 determined on awaiting the arrival of Akaitcho and 

 his party, in order to present these to them, and to 

 assure them of the promised reward, as soon as it 

 could possibly be procured. 



In the afternoon of the 14th, Akaitcho, with bis 

 whole band, came to the Fort. He smoked bis cus- 

 tomary pipe, and made an address to Mr. Weeks in 

 the hall, previous to his coming into the room in which 

 Dr. Richardson and 1 were. We discovered at the 

 commencement of bis speech to us, thai he had been 

 informed that our expected supplies had not come. 

 He spoke of this circumstance as a disappointment, 

 indeed, sufficiently severe to himself, to whom bis 

 band looked up for the protection of their inter 

 l)ii t without attaching any blame to us. "The world 



eft badly," he said, ''all are poo'r, you are poor, the 



