150 Thirty Years 
CHAPTER VII. 
yu2i, The trains for the canoes having been fin- 
ished during the night, the party attached to them 
commenced their journey at ten this morning. Each 
canoe was dragged by four men assisted by two dogs. 
They took the route of Winter Lake, with the inten- 
tion of following, although more circuitous, the water- 
course as far as practicable, it being safer for the 
canoes than traveling over land. After their de- 
parture, the remaining stores, the instruments, and 
our small stock of dried meat, amounting only to 
eighty pounds, were distributed equally among Hep- 
burn, three Canadians, and the two Esquimaux; with 
this party and two Indian hunters, we quitted Fort 
Enterprize, most sincerely rejoicing that the long- 
wished for day had arrived, when we were to proceed 
towards the final object of the Expedition. 
We left in one of the rooms a box, containing a 
journal of the occurrences up to this daté, the charts, 
and some drawings, which was to be conveyed to Fort 
