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such a distance, provisions are obtained for this 

 post, as there are very few large animals at this 

 season, in this vicinity, in consequence, I presume, 

 of the great depth of snow, which always falls in 

 places, so near the mountain, as this. The peo- 

 ple who are here say, that the hunters had such 

 difficulty in finding animals of any kind, the last 

 fall, that they all passed five days, without any 

 kind of food. 



Monday, March 1. Dunvegan. I have, at 

 length, reached this place, where I passed the 

 years 1809 and 1810, and revisiting it, many a 

 pleasing scene is recalled by memory, and many 

 hours of agreeable conversation, which I passed, 

 with the gentlemen who were then here, rise 

 fresh to my recollection. — Mr. M c Gillivray is now 

 absent, on a visit to the Lesser Slave Lake ; and 

 Mr. Collin Campbell has charge of the fort. 



Sunday, 14. Mr. M c Gillivray returned, on the 

 10th inst. He is an amiable and excellent man ; 

 and I have enjoyed his society, during my short 

 stay here, very highly. Having completed my 

 business here, I shall set out tomorrow, on my re- 

 turn to Stuart's Lake. I here received the intel- 

 ligence, that Niagara and Makana had surrender- 

 ed to the British forces ; but not before many val- 

 uable lives were lost, on both sides. 



Sanday, April 4. Stuart's Lake. We left 



