66 Thirty Years 
conveyed across a point of Jand. Soon after noon we 
left the river, inclining N. E., and directed our course 
N. W., until we reached Long Lake, and encamped at 
its northern extremity, having come twenty-three 
miles. This lake is about fourteen miles long, and © 
from three-quarters to one mile and a half broad _; its 
shores and islands low, but well wooded. There were 
frequent snow-showers during the day. 
Feb. 23.—The night was very stormy, but the wind 
became more moderate in the morning. We passed 
to-day through several nameless lakes and swamps be- 
fore we camé to Train Lake, which received its name 
* from being the place where the traders procured the 
birch to make the sledges, or traineaux ; but this 
wood has been all used, and there only remain pines 
and a few poplars. We met some sledges laden with 
fish, kindly sent to meet us by Mr. Clark, of the Hud- 
son’s Bay Company, directly he heard of our approach. 
Towards the evening the weather became much more 
unpleasant ; we-were exposed to a piercingly cold 
wind, and much snow-drift, in traversing Isle 4 la 
Crosse Lake ; we were, therefore, highly pleased at 
reaching the Hudson’s Bay House by six P.M. We 
were received in the most friendly manner by Mr. 
Clark, and honored by volleys of musketry on our ar- 
rival, Similar marks of attention were shewn to us 
on the following day by Mr. Bethune, the partner in 
