Harmon's journal. 



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Monday, 10. Dunvegan. This is a well built 

 tort, pleasantly situated, with plains on each side 

 of the river, in N. Lat. 56° and W. Lon. 119°. 



About the Fort a number of Iroquois hunters, 

 and a band of Beaver Indians, have encamped, 

 who have been waiting our arrival, in order to 

 obtain the articles which they need. At this 

 place I expect to pass the ensuing winter. There 

 will, also, be here, Messrs. D. M c Tavish, J. G. 

 M c Tavish, J. M c Gillivray, thirty two labouring 

 men, nine women and several children, which 

 renders this place very different from my solitary 

 abode the last winter. 



Our principal food will be the flesh of the buf- 

 faloe, moose, red deer and bear. We have a tol- 

 erably good kitchen garden ; and we are in no 

 fear that we shall want the means of a comforta- 

 ble subsistence. We have, also, a provision for the 

 entertainment and improvement of our minds, in 

 a good collection of books. The gentlemen who 

 are to remain with me, are enlightened, sociable 

 and pleasant companions ; and I hope, therefore, 

 to spend a pleasant and a profitable winter. 



Friday, 14. This morning, my old friend Mr. 

 F. Goedike, whom I have been happy to meet at 

 this place, left us, with his company, for St, Johns, 

 which is about one hundred and twenty miles "^up 

 this river, where he is to pass the ensuing winter. 



