386 Thirty Years 
We quitted Moose-deer Island at five P.M., on the 
26th, accompanied by Mr. M’Vicar and Mr. Ww Auley, 
and nearly all the voyagers at the establishment, bav- 
ing resided there about five months, not a day of which 
had passed without our having cause of gratitude, for 
the kind and unvaried attentions of Mr. M’Vicar and 
Mr. M’Auley. These gentlemen accompanied us as 
far as Fort Chipewyan, where we arrived on the 2d of 
June ; here we met Mr, Wentzel, and the four men, 
who had been sent with him from the mouth of the 
Copper-Mine River; and I think it due to that gen- 
tleman, to give his own explanation of the unfortunate 
circumstances which prevented him from fulfilling my 
last instructions, respecting the provisions to have 
been left for us at Fort Enterprize.* 
* “After you sent me back from the mouth of the Copper-Mine 
River, and I had overtaken the Leader, Guides, and Hunters on the 
fifth day leaving the sea-coast,.as well as on our journey up the River, 
they always expressed the same desire of fulfilling their promises, 
although somewhat dissatisfied at being exposed to privation while on 
our return, from a scarcity of animals; for as I have already stated in 
my first communication from Moose-Deer Island, we had been eleven 
days with no other food but tripe de roche. In the course of this time 
an Indian, with his wife and child, who were traveling in company 
with us, were left in the rear, and are since supposed to have perished 
through want, as no intelligence had been received of them at Fort 
Providence in December last. On the 7th day after I had joined the 
Leader, &c, &c., and journeying on together, all the Indians except- 
ing Petit, Pied and Bald-Head, left me to seek thoir ‘families, and 
