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CHAPTER IV. 
4g ON the day of our arrival at Fort Chipe- 
wyan we called upon Mr. MacDonald, the gentleman 
in charge of the Hudson’s Bay Establishment, called 
Fort Wedderburne, and delivered to him Governor 
Williams’s circular letter, which desired that every as- 
sistance should be given to further our progress, and a 
statement of the requisitions-‘which we should have to 
make on his post. : : 
Our first object was to obtain some certain informa- 
tion respecting our future route ; and accordingly we 
received from one of the North-West Company’s in- 
terpreters, named Beaulieu, a half-breed, who had 
been brought up amongst the Dog-ribbed and Copper 
Indians, some satisfactory information, which we after- 
wards found tolerably correct, respecting the mode of 
reaching the Copper-mine River, which he had de- 
scended a considerable way, as well as of the‘course of 
that river to its mouth. The Copper Indians, how- 
ever, he said, would be able to give us more -accurate 
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