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track of one, since we left the Rocky Moun- 

 tain Portage. About twenty miles from this 

 place* we left Peace River, and have come up a 

 small river, of five or six rods in breadth, which, 

 a little below this, passes through a small lake. 

 Here, we leave our canoes, and take our goods 

 by land, to the establishment at Stuart's Lake, 

 which place is situated nearly one hundred miles 

 to the west from this. There is a passage by 

 water to that lake ; but it is so circuitous, that 

 we could not make it in less than twelve or fifteen 

 days. 



M c Leod's Lake may be sixty or seventy miles 

 in circumference. Small white fish and trout are 

 here taken ; but those who reside here subsist, 

 during the greater part of the year, on dried 

 salmon, which are brought in the winter, on 

 sledges, drawn by dogs, from Stuart's Lake. 



The Indians who frequent this establishment, 

 are Sicaunies, and belong to the same tribe with 

 those, who take their furs to the Rocky Mountain 

 Portage. Their dialect differs but little from that 

 of the Beaver Indians. They appear to be in 

 wretched circumstances, frequently suffering 

 much for want of food ; and they are often 

 driven to the necessity of subsisting on roots. 

 There are but few large animals, in this part of 

 the country ; and when the snow is five or six feet 

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