A 



JOURNEY 



TO THE 



NORTHERN OCEAN. 



CHAP. I. 



Transactions from my leaving Prince of Wales's Fort on my 

 first expedition, till our arrival there again. 



Set off from the Fort — Arrive at Po-co-ree-kis-co River — One of the 

 Northern Indians desert — Cross Seal River, and walk on the barren 

 grounds — Receive wrong information concerning the distance of the 

 woods — Weather begins to be very cold, provisions all expended and 

 nothing to be got — Strike to the JVestward, arrive at the woods, and 

 kill three deer — Set forward in the North West quarter, see the tracks 

 of musk-oxen and deer, but killed none — Very short of provisions — 

 Chawchinahaw wants us to return — Neither he nor his crew con- 

 tribute to our maintenance — He influences several of the Indians to 

 desert — Chawchinahaw and all his crew leave us — Begin our return 

 to the factory ; kill a few partridges, the first meal we had had for 

 several days — Villany of one of the home Indians and his wife, who was 

 a Northern Indian woman — Arrive at Seal River, kill two deer ; 

 partridges plenty — Meet a strange Northern Indian, accompany him to 

 his tent, usage received there ; my Indians assist in killing some beaver 

 — Proceed toward home, and arrive at the Fort. 



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AVING made every necessary arrangement for my de- i/'Sg- 

 parture on the sixth of November, I took leave of the 6th. 



Governor, and my other friends, at Prince of Wales's 

 Fort, and began my journey, under the salute of seven cannon. 



