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lakes, the North West Company have a vessel. 

 One goes to the Grand Portage, and the other to 

 Detroit, &c. 



Saturday, 31. We shall sleep where we did 

 the last night. Several of us have visited the 

 people, who live on the other side of the rapid, 

 where we saw a dance of the Natives, who are 

 Sauteux or Chippeways. 



Sunday, June, 1. Point au Pin, or Pine Point, 

 in Lake Superiour. We here find the vessel that 

 sails from this to the Grand Portage. I went on 

 board, and the Captain informed me, that she 

 would carry about ninety five tons, and that she 

 makes four or five trips every season. I left the 

 Soult St. Maries, in company with three hundred 

 men, who are in thirty five canoes. 



Monday, 2. Point aux Erables, or Maple 

 Point. We now form four Brigades, in which 

 there are six clerks. 



Tuesday, 3. A high wind during the whole 

 day. In the morning, we attempted to sail, but 

 soon found we could not, without shipping a great 

 deal of water ; we therefore soon landed again, 

 and are encamped, within one hundred rods of 

 the place where we tarried the last night. 



Wednesday, 4. As it has rained and snowed 

 all day, accompanied by a high wind, we have not 

 been able to leave our encampment of the last 



