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of whom are from more than a thousand miles 

 down M c Kenzie's River, which is nearly north 

 west from this. Others are from Great Slave 

 Lake and Peace River. Mr. Simon Frazer has 

 just returned* from the Pacific Ocean. The last 

 spring, accompanied by two other gentlemen, 

 twelve Canadians, and two of the Natives, he set 

 out from New Caledonia, on the west side of the 

 Rocky Mountain, on this tour. Mr. Frazer states, 

 that his party met with some ill treatment from 

 the Indians who live along the sea coast, but that 

 they were hospitably received by those who 

 reside farther up the country. The Indians in 

 that quarter, he says, are less scattered than those 

 who live on this side of the Rocky Mountain, 

 and reside, not in tents, but in houses or huts, 

 constructed of wood. He also reports, that 

 the country through which they passed, is 

 far from being well stocked with beavers, or 

 any other kind of animals ; and that the Na- 

 tives subsist principally upon fish. 



Thursday, 22. This afternoon, in company 

 with a number of persons, in several canoes, I left 

 Fort Chipewyan; and, after coming two miles in 

 Athabasca Lake, we entered a small river, which 

 is about thirty six miles long, and w 7 hich now runs 

 out of that lake into Peace river ; but, when 

 this river is high, it discharges itself into the Lake. 



