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Factory, where we arrived on the 14th of Jul; 

 were received with every mark of attention and kind- 



by Mr. Simpson, the Governor, Mr. M'Tavish, 

 and, indeed, by all the officers of the United I 

 panies. And thus terminated our long, fatiguing, 

 and disastrous travels in North America, having jour- 



I by water and by land (including our navigation 

 of the Polar Sea,) five th tusand five hundred and fifty 

 miles. 



assisting the expedition, shoold ltd •• River, 



of which they were not certain. 



to my H"i leaving ;i letter uraa because 



by Borne mischance, you bad forgot I e paper* when we 



d.* 



■ I however wrote this news on a plank, in pencil, and placed it in 



the 1 1 >[ > of your former bedstead, where I left it. Bince it has not 



ami there, Borne Indians must hav< the house after my 



departure, and destroyed it. These details, Sir, I have been induced 



to enter into rather ones in justification of myself, and hope 



it will I 



* J cert " . Wentael torn* paper when It< quitted us, but he 



•hat a note book ; ami Mr, I m a pencil. 



