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wide. Its banks are of moderate height, sandy, and 
well wooded. 
July 24.—We made more progress notwithstanding 
the continuance of the wind. The course of the river 
is very winding, making in one place acircuit of seven 
or eight miles round a peninsula, which is joined to 
the west bank by a narrow isthmus. Near the foot 
of this elbow, a long island occupies the centre of the 
‘ river, which it divides into two channels. 
Soon after landing, I visited the Hudson’s Bay post 
on the same island, and engaged Pierre St. German, 
an interpreter for the Copper Indians. We regretted 
to find the posts of both the Companies extremely 
bare of provision ; but as the gentleman in charge had 
despatched men on the preceding evening, to a band 
of Indians, in search of meat, and they promised to 
furnish us with whatever should be brought, it was 
deemed advisable to wait for their return, as the small- 
est supply was now of importance to us. Advantage 
was taken of the delay to repair effectually the canoe, 
which had been broken in the Dog Rapid. On the next 
evening, the men arrived with the meat, and enabled 
Mr. M‘Cleod, of the North-West Company, to furnish 
us with four hundred pounds of dried provisions. Mr. 
M‘Vicar, of the Hudson’s Bay Company, also supplied 
one hundred and fifty pounds. This quantity we con- 
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