North-West Continent of America. 



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Landry, Charles Ducette,* Franc,ois Beaulieux, Baptist 

 Bisson, Francis Courtois, and Jacques Beauchamp, with 

 two Indians as hunters and interpreters. One of them, 

 when a bo) r , was used to be so idle, that he obtained the 

 reputable name of Cancre, which he still possesses. With 

 these persons I embarked at seven in the evening. My 

 winter interpreter, with another person, whom I left here 

 to take care of the fort, and supply the natives with am- 

 munition during the summer, shed tears on the reflection 

 pf those dangers which we might encounter in our expe*r 

 dition, while my own people offered up their prayers that 

 we might return in safety from it. 



* Joseph Landry and. Charles Ducette were with me in my former 

 voyage. 



