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and a small portion of ammunition to the healthy ; which, 

 indeed, they very much wanted, as they had entirely lived 

 for the last six months on the produce of their bows and 

 arrows. They appeared to have been great sufferers by 

 their expedition* 



Friday 11. It froze hard during the night, and was 

 very cold throughout the day, with an appearance of snow. 

 We embarked at half past four in the morning, and con- 

 tinued our course till six in the evening, when we landed 

 for the night at our encampment of the third of June. 



Saturday 12. The weather was cloudy and also very 

 cold. At eight we embarked with a North-East wind, 

 and entered the Lake of the Hills. About ten, the wind 

 veered to the Westward, and was as strong as we could 

 bear it with the high sail, so that we arrived at Chepewyan 

 fort by three o'clock in the afternoon, where we found Mr, 

 Macleod, with five men, busily employed in building a 

 new house. Here, then, we concluded this voyage, which 

 had occupied the considerable space of one hundred and 

 two days. 



this weakness I took advantage ; and assured him, that if he would 

 never mere go to war with such poor defenceless people, that I would 

 cure him. To this proposition he readily consented, and on my giving 

 him medicine, which consisted of Turlington's balsam, mixed in water, 

 1 declared, that it would lose its effect, if he was not sincere in the 

 promise that he made me. In short, he actually recovered, was true 

 *° his engagements, and on all occasions manifested his gratitude to me. 



