FUR S.- 
which extends to lake a and having crofled that 
body of water which forins the grand refervoir of 
rence, they arrive eat the im portant entre- 
At this ares they 
out 
the beginning of July. 
to feleét from the ee. a number of men, amo 
nteer seed fafficient to 
an the canoes neceflary for carrying the goods and provi- 
fions requifite for the Athabafca a country, to the river of 
the Rainy lake. The northmen, who have arrived at Grande 
Por ae are ‘lead have their sere are and fuch 
as choofe nace any a their e a eae 
draughts oF e fam Sach as 
not pre ale ae an engage ements during the nr 
as is cuftomary, now contract for returning up the country, 
to perform the annual voy age for one, oo r three years ; 
and as foon as every thing can be got ready, or ear 
requires a ee they are again aifpatche ed to their re- 
{pective ies tments. This done, the agents, affifted by 
their clerks, rare to return ne ard, by getting the furs 
and fkins acrofs the Portage, and re-packing them in bales 
of one hundred pounds each, to fend them down to Mon- 
treal, — they commonly arrive about the month of 
Septem 
The ak from the Grand Portage to the interior is,’ 
m. Pilar is in latitude 58° 38' north, and longitude 110° 
in fome particulars, carried on in a different manne 
a 
up the river la Loche, and. 
fie br the Elk, ehh Goam cietes with the lake of the 
Hills On the fouthern fide of 
» Pon i 
diftant ; and transferred to this place in 1788 
of the north-weit united company. 
that between it and Montreal. The canoes employed in is was the fettlement where Mr. Mackenzie 
the tranfporting anes from the latter place are too large refided eight years, conducting the concer the north- 
for carrying them beyond the former. Other cate of weitcompany, when took his departure on both his ex- 
about ha lf the ae navigated 2 about a to fix men, peditions of difcovery ; and the f ft to orth-weft 
for coi elec and baggage 
d to every four or fix a thefe canoes, and thus 
hen 
tard, they enter the Mountain ee pas b numerous a 
and De Boi 
ations 
and 
bear, b uffalo 
t n 
aed ee for the pio Ginn of et “conduéting ae 
mode adopted in chia peneen the bufinefs.  ¢ : flotilla of 
aden canoes, which le ape de Pluie about the firft of: 
Augutt, do ecoha= her the latter end of ‘Se tember, 
or the beginning of O&ober, when a neceflary proportion | 
id the eciaaa 18 aes up the Peace river, to trade with 
he mae an cky pe tain — 
re he Slave river aad lake, to tr ith th 
an oe mall Aa of fea. i not left at ace fork 
he Elk river, return thither for communicating w he 
Goifencatx ; ; while the reft of the people and scaler ro 
fe here to trade with the Chepewyans. In the fall of 
e fent 
the year, t th rs at th ’ re 
they barter the furs or provifions which they have procured, 
then obtain frefh credi d he bea d 
do not return tillthe beginning of thecyear ; when they are 
a fitted out in the fame manner, and come back the latter 
concerns. Fort Dauphin, ereéted by the French, prior to 
the conque eer, and Swan-river forts, with feve- part of the latter return to the grounds, and hve 
ral {mall detached eae re ee to each. Upthe Saf- during the fummer with their relations and friends in the en- 
seca iel the flotilla of s proceeds to Cedar lake,’ joyment of that plenty which is derived from nunierous 
from whence the abovementioned river isnavigable to near herds of deer. Yet perfons of that tribe who are mo 
its fource. Ont s fine communication are five principal partial to thofe defarts cannot remain there in winter, arid 
factories; viz. Ne an wi-houfe, South-branch-houle, Fort they are obliged, with the deer, to take fhelter in the woods 
Geogge-houfe, Fort Auguftus-houfe, and Upper ablifh-: in that rigorous vee jane eae they contrive to kill a 
me eaving the pounce the voyagers enter the Ss and fend them by young ane to exchange for 
river that communicates with the Sturgeon lake, on the. iron uten andehanaaiion tal the year 1782 the people 
eaftern bank of which is “fit tuated another factory, Cumber- of At sbafea fent or carried their ae a arly to fort 
land- foe Thence the rout ae darks Pine-ifland lake, 
lake de Bouleau, Miron lak ee o the Miffini- 
pi, called alfo Churchill river, TI ne inhabitants of this part 
of the country are the Knifteneaux oe whofe furs the 
time repaired thither, notwithitanding a could have 
vided themfelves from the Canadians with all the necelfaries 
which they required, The difference of the price fet 
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