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to our “advance, we should, in all probability, be 
unable to return to it, and should have to travel 
across the barren grounds towards some established 
post ; in which case I told him that we should cer- 
tainly go first to Fort Enterprize, expecting that he 
would cause the Indians to place a supply of dried 
provision there, as soon as possible after their arrival 
in its vicinity. My instructions to him were, that he 
should proceed to Point Lake, transport the canoe that 
was left there to Fort Enterprize, where he was to 
embark the instruments and books, and carry them to 
Slave Lake, and to forward the box containing the 
journals, &c., with the present despatches by the next 
winter packet to England. But before he quitted 
Fort Enterprize, he was to be assured of the intention 
of the Indians to lay up the provision we required, 
and if they should be in want of ammunition for that 
purpose, to procure it if possible from Fort Providence, 
or the other forts in Slave Lake, and send it imme- 
diately to them by the hunters who accompanied him 
thither. I also requested him to ascertain from 
Akaitcho and the other leading Indians, where their 
different parties would be hunting in the months of 
September and October, and. to leave this information 
in a letter at Fort Unterprize, for our guidance in 
finding them, as we should require their assistance. 
Mr. Wentzel was furnished with a list of the stores 
