364 Thirty Years 
but the wind abating in the morning, we proceeded, 
and by sunset reached the fishing huts of the Com- 
pany at Stony Point. Here we found Mr. Andrews, 
a clerk of the Hudson’s Bay Company, who regaled 
us with a supper of excellent white fish, for which this 
part of Slave Lake is particularly celebrated. Two 
men with sledges arrived soon afterwards, sent by Mr. 
M’Vicar, who expected us about this time. We set 
off in the morning before day-break, with several, 
companions, and arrived at Moose-deer Island about 
one P.M. Here we were received with the utmost - 
hospitality by Mr. M’Vicar, the chief trader of the 
Hudson’s Bay Company in this district, as well as by 
his assistant, Mr. M’Auley. We had also the happi- 
ness of joining our friend Mr, Back; our feelings on 
this occasion can be well imagined ; we were deeply 
impressed with gratitude to him for his exertions in 
sending the supply of food to Fort Lnterprize, to 
which, under Divine Providence, we felt the preserva- 
tion of our lives to be owing. He gave us an affecting 
detail of the proceedings of his party since our separa- 
tion ; the substance of which I shall convey to the 
reader, by the following extracts from his Journal. 
