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thirty six miles in length ; and the soil about it h 

 much like that, along the Rainy Lake River. 

 We are now in Winipick River, and have passed 

 a rapid where the last year, three men were 

 drowned. One of our men fired at a black bear, 

 but did not kill him. N 



Wednesday, 30. Passed a number of miry 

 Portages, and a place where, three years since, 

 the Natives, who are Chippeways, fired upon our 

 people, but without killing any of them. One of 

 the Indians was taken, with the intention of carry- 

 ing him to the nearest Fort, and there punishing 

 him as he deserved. After proceeding a consid- 

 erable distance, however, and when near a rapid, 

 he jumped out of the canoe, intending, as was sup- 

 posed, to swim to the opposite shore, and thus es- 

 cape. But the current was too strong ; and he 

 went down the rapid, and was probably drowned* 



Thursday, 31. Mouth of the River Winipick. 

 Here the North West Company, and the Hudson 

 Bay Company, have each a fort. Here the above 

 named river discharges its waters into Lake Win- 

 ipick. The River W 7 inipick, through the greater 

 part of its course, is a succession of small lakes ; 

 and in several places there are falls, of a conside- 

 rable height. The country around it is broken ; 

 and occasionally, majestick and frightful waterfalls 

 are to be seen, particularly where the White 



