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1770- as soon as possible ; and your present guide has promised to 



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take great care or you, and conduct you out and home with 

 all convenient speed. 



" I conclude with my best wishes for your health and 

 happiness, together with a successful journey, and a quick 

 return in safety. Amen. 



" (Signed) Moses Norton, Governor. 



" Dated at Prince of Wales's Fort, 

 7th December 1770." 



7th. On the seventh of December I set out on my third journey ; 

 and the weather, considering the season of the year, was for 

 some days pretty mild. One of Matonabbee's wives being ill, 

 occasioned us to walk so slow, that [66] it was the thirteenth 

 before we arrived at Seal River ; at which time two men and 

 their wives left us, whose loads, when added to those of the 

 remainder of my crew, made a very material difference, especi- 

 ally as Matonabbee's wife was so ill as to be obliged to be 

 hauled on a sledge. 



Finding deer and all other game very scarce, and not 

 knowing how long it might be before we could reach any 

 place where they were in greater plenty, the Indians walked as 

 far each day as their loads and other circumstances would 



16th. conveniently permit. On the sixteenth, we arrived at Egg 

 River, where Matonabbee and the rest of my crew had laid 

 up some provisions and other necessaries, when on their 

 journey to the Fort. On going to the place where they 

 thought the provisions had been carefully secured from all 

 kinds of wild beasts, they had the mortification to find that 

 some of their countrymen, with whom the Governor had first 

 traded and dispatched from the Fort, had robbed the store of 

 every article, as well as of some of their most useful imple- 

 ments. This loss was more severely felt, as there was a total 

 want of every kind of game ; and the Indians, not expecting 

 to meet with so great a disappointment, had not used that 



