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ister more effectually to our enjoyment than it 

 does, we must very soon relinquish forever. 



Friday, May 13. The Doctor, with one man 

 in a small canoe, has set off for Fort William, 

 where he will be wanted as soon as he can arrive, 

 to attend on the sick. Among the great number 

 who visit that rendezvous every summer, there 

 are always some, who need medical aid ; though 

 I firmly believe, that no part of the world is more 

 healthly than this. — The Doctor has not been 

 able to learn, to his satisfaction, what my com- 

 plaint is. I think that the medicines, which I have 

 taken, in the course of the winter, have been of 

 essential service to me ; and I hope, before long 

 to regain my former state of good health. 



The Indians of this place have subsisted, dur- 

 ing the greater part of the past winter, upon 

 hares. — There is an old Sauteux woman here, 

 who compels her own son to have criminal inter- 

 course with her! 



Thursday, June 9. Portage du Fort Here, 

 we shall wait the arrival of the people of this de- 

 partment ; and we shall then continue our route, 

 with them to Fort William. It is nine months 

 and fifteen days since I passed this place, the last 

 autumn, in going into the country, which evinces 

 that our winter has been long; and I may add 

 too, that it has been dreary. But we have reason 



