12 Journal of a Voyage through the 



CHAPTER II. 



-Landed at some lodges of Red-Knife Indians : procure one of 

 them to assist in navigating the bays. Conference with 

 the Indians. Take leave of M. Le Roux, and continue 

 the voyage. Different appearances of the land; its veget- 

 able produce. Visit an island where the wood had been 

 felled. Further description of the Coast. Plenty of rein 

 and moose-deer , and white partridges. Enter a very deep 

 hay. Interrupted by ice. Very blowing weather. Con- 

 tinue to coast the bay. Arrive at the mouth of a river. 

 Great numbers of fish and wild-fowl. Description of the 

 land on either side. Curious appearance of woods that 

 had been burned. Come in sight of the Horn Mountain. 

 Continue to kill geese and swans, &c. Violent storm. 



June, 1789. "> HP . 



Tuesday 23. 3 * owards morning, the Indians who had not 

 been able to keep up with us the preceding day, now join- 

 ed us, and brought two swans and a goose. At half past 

 three we re-embarked, and steering West by North a mile 

 and an half, with a Northerly wind, we came to the foot 

 of a traverse across a deep bay, West five miles, which 

 receives a considerable river at the bottom of it ; the dis- 

 tance about twelve miles. The North- West side of the 

 bay was covered with many small islands that were sur- 

 rounded with ice ; but the wind driving it a little off the 

 land, we had a clear passage on the inside of them. We 

 steered South- West nine miles under sail, then North- 

 West, nearly, through the islands, forming a course of six- 

 teen miles. We landed on the main land at half past two 

 in the afternoon at three lodges of Red-Knife Indians, so 

 called from their copper knives. They informed us, that 

 there were many more lodges of their friends at no great 

 distance ; and one of the Indians set off to fetch them : 

 they also said, that we should see no more of them at pre- 

 sent ; as the Slave and Beaver Indians, as well as others 

 of the tribe, would not be here till the time that the swans 

 cast their feathers. In the afternoon it rained a torrent. 



Wednesday 24. M. Le Roux purchased of these In- 

 dians upwards of eight packs of good beaver and martin 

 skins ; and there were not above twelve of them qualified 



