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- comed us in the most kind manner, immediately gave 
us changes of dress, and did every thing i in his power 
to make us comfortable. 
Our sensations, on being once more ina comfortable 
dwelling, after the series of hardships and miseries we 
had experienced, will be much better imagined than 
any language of mine can describe them. Our first 
act was again to return our grateful praises to the 
Almighty for the manifold instances of his mercy to- 
watds us. Having found here some articles, which 
Mr. Back had sent across from Moose-deer Island, I 
determined on awaiting the arrival of Akaitcho and 
his party, in order to present these to them, and to 
assure them of the promised. reward, as soon as it 
could possibly be procured. 
In the afternoon of the 14th, Akaitcho, with his 
_ whole band, came to the Fort, He smoked his cus- 
tomary pipe, and made an address to Mr. Weeks in 
the hall, previous to his coming into the room in which 
Dr. Richardson and I were. We discovered at the 
commencement of his speech to us, that he had been 
informed that our expected supplies had not come. 
He spoke of this circumstance as a disappointment, 
indeed, sufficiently severe to himself, to whom his 
band looked up for the protection of their interests, 
but without attaching any blame to us. ‘The world 
goes badly,” he said, ‘‘all are poor, you are poor, the 
