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of this conversation Akaitcho exclaimed 

 with a smile, " I see now that you have 

 really no goods left, (the rooms and stores 

 being completely stripped,) and therefore I 

 shall not trouble you any more, but use my 

 best endeavours to prepare provision for 

 you, and I think if the animals are tolerably 

 numerous, we may get plenty before you 

 can embark on the river." 



Whilst the Indians were packing up this 

 morning, one of the women absconded. She 

 belongs to the Dog-rib tribe, and had been 

 taken by force from her relations by her 

 present husband, who treated her very 

 harshly. The fellow was in my room when 

 his mother announced the departure of his 

 wife, and received the intelligence with 

 great composure, as well as the seasonable 

 reproof of Akaitcho. " You are rightly 

 served," said the chief to him, " and will 

 now have to carry all your things yourself, 

 instead of having a wife to drag them." 

 One hunter remained after the departure 

 of the other Indians. 



On the 5th the Dog-rib woman presented 



