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information as to the latter part of its course, as they 
occasionally pursue it on the sea. Hesketched.on the 
floor a representation of the river, and a line of coast 
according to his idea of it. Just as he had finished, 
an old Chipewyan Indian, named Black Meat, unex- 
pectedly came in, and instantly recognized the plan. 
He then took the charcoal from Beaulieu, and inserted 
a track along the sea-coast, which he had followed in 
returning from a war excursion, made by his tribe 
against the Esquimaux. He detailed several particu- 
lars of the coast and the sea, which he represented as 
studded with well-wooded islands, and free from ice, 
close to the shore, but not to a great distance, in the | 
month of July. He described two other rivers to the 
eastward of Copper-mine River, which also fall into 
the Northern Ocean. The Anatessy, which issues from 
the Contway-to or Rum Lake, and the Thloueea-tessy 
or Fish River, which rises near the eastern boundary 
of the Great Slave Lake ; but he represented them 
both as being shallow, and too much interrupted by 
barriers for being navigated in any other than small 
Indian canoes. | 
Having received this satisfactory intelligence, I 
wrote immediately to Mr. Smith, of the North-West 
Company, and Mr. M‘Vicar, of the Hudson’s Bay 
Company, the gentlemen in charge of the posts at the 
Great Silver Lake, to communicate the object of the. 
