92 Thirty Years 
friends, Dr. Richardson and Mr. Hood, who arrived in 
perfect health with two canoes, having made a very 
expeditious journey from Cumberland, notwithstand- 
ing they were detained near three days in consequence 
of the melancholy loss of one of their bowmen, by 
the upsetting of a canoe in a strong rapid ; but, as 
the occurrences of this journey, together with the 
mention of some other circumstances that happened 
previous to their departure from Cumberland, which 
have been extracted from Mr, Hood’s narrative, will 
appear in the following chapter, it will be unnecessa- 
ry to enter farther into these points now. 
The zeal and talent displayed by Dr. Richardson 
and Mr. Hood in the discharge of their several duties, 
since my separation from them, drew forth my highest 
approbation, These gentlemen had brought all the 
stores they could procure from the establishments at 
Cumberland and at Isle 4 la Crosse ; and at the latter 
place they had received ten bags of pemmican from 
the North-West Company, which proved to be mouldy 
and so totally unfit for use that it was left at the Me- 
thye portage. They got none from the Hudson’s Bay 
post. The voyagers belonging to that Company, 
being destitute of provisions, had eaten what was in- 
tended for us. In consequence of these untoward 
circumstances, the canoes arrived with only one’s day 
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