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ments for the journey to-Fort Providence. We con- 
tinued very weak. 
Octcber 18.—While we were this day occupied in 
scraping together the remains of some deers’ meat, we 
observed Belanger coming round a point apparently 
scarcely moving. I went to meet him, and made im- 
mediate inquiries about my friends. Five, with the 
Captain, he said, were at the house, the rest were left 
near the river, unable to proceed; but he was too 
weak to relate the whole. He was conducted to the 
encampment, and paid every attention to, and by de- 
grees we heard the remainder of his tragic tale, at 
which the interpréter could not avoid crying. He 
then gave me a letter from my friend the Commander, 
‘which indeed was truly afflicting. The simple story 
of Belanger I could hear, but when f read it in another 
language, mingled with the pious resignation of a good 
man, I could not sustain it any longer. The poor 
man was much affected at the death of our lamented 
companion, but his appetite prevailed over every other 
.feeling ; and had I permitted it, he would have done 
himself an injury ; for after two hours’ eating, prin- 
cipally skin and sinews, he complained of hunger. 
The day was cloudy, with snow and fresh breezes 
from the north-east by east. 
The last evening, as well as this morning, the 19th, 
I mentioned my Callies to the men, that we should 
