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by Boileau and Black-meat at Chipewyan, but they 
differed in the descriptions of the coast. The infor- 
mation, however, collected from both sources was very 
vague and unsatisfactory. None of his tribe had been 
more than three days’ march along the sea-coast to 
the eastward of the river’s mouth. 
As the water was unusually high this season, the 
Indian guides recommended our going by a shorter 
route to the Copper-Mine River than that they had 
first proposed to Mr. Wentzel, and they assigned as a 
reason for the change, that the rein-deer would be 
sooner found upon this tract. They then drew a chart 
of the proposed route on the floor with charcoal, ex- 
hibiting a chain of twenty-five small lakes extending 
towards the north, about one-half of them connected 
by a river which flows into Slave Lake, near Fort 
Providence. One of the guides, named Keskarrah, 
drew the Copper-Mine River, running through the 
Upper Lake in a westerly direction towards the Great 
Bear Lake, and then northerly to the sea. The other 
guide drew the river in a straight line to the sea from 
the above mentioned place, but after some dispute, 
admitted the correctness of the first delineation. The 
latter was elder brother to Akaitcho, and he said that 
he had accompanied Mr. Hearne on his journey, and 
though very young at the time, still remembered 
many of the circumstances, and particularly the mas- 
