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very acceptable, being the first that we had seen since we left 1771. 



Point Lake. November. 



No Name Lake is about fifty miles long from North to 

 South, and, according to the account of the Indians, is thirty- 

 five miles wide from East to West. It is said to abound with 

 fine fish ; but the weather at the time we crossed it was so cold, 

 as to render it impossible to sit on the ice any [211] length of 

 time to angle. A few exceedingly fine trout, and some very 

 large pike, however, were caught by my companions. 



When we arrived on the South side of the above lake, we 

 shaped our course to the South West ; and though the weather 

 was in general very cold, yet as we every night found tufts of 

 wood, in which we could pitch our tents, we were enabled to 

 make a better defence against the weather, than we had had it 

 in our power to do for some time past. 



On the tenth of November, we arrived at the edge of the loth. 

 main woods; at which time the Indians began to make proper 

 sledges, some snow-shoes, &'c. after which we proceeded again 

 to the South West. But deer and all other kinds of game 

 were so scarce the whole way, that, except a few partridges, 

 nothing was killed by any in company : we had, nevertheless, 

 plenty of the provision which had been prepared at Point 

 Lake. 



On the twentieth of the same month, we arrived at 20th. 



charge of Fort Resolution, the Hudson Bay Company's post on Great Slave 

 Lake, has sent me the following Chipewyan Indian names of lakes, &c., in 

 this region : — 



English. Chipewyan. Meaning. 



Mackay Lake. Clayki thua. White Sand Lake. 



Le Gras Lake. A ka thua Fat Lake. 



(doubtless the same as Point Lake). 

 Aylmer Lake. Chlueata thua. Caribou swimming among 



the ice Lake. 

 Artillery Lake. Atacho thua. Caribou crossing in the 



middle of the lake Lake. 

 Coppermine River. Sanka taza. Copper River. 



Musk Ox Mountain. Edegadaniyatha.] 



