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and all the goods which they had on hand. The 

 people who were engaged in the service of that 

 company, are to have a passage, the next summer, 

 to Montreal, in the canoes of the North West 

 Company, unless they choose to enter into our 

 service. 



Sunday ', Jlpril 17. As the ice appears to be 

 out of this river, I have sent Mr. Leunen, accom- 

 panied by two Canadians, in a small canoe, with 

 letters to the gentlemen on Columbia River. I 

 am, therefor e, deprived of an agreeable compan- 

 ion, who, I expected until lately, would pass the 

 summer with me. — Happy are those, who have 

 an amiable and intelligent friend, with whom they 

 can, at pleasure, converse. 



Friday, 22. Sent off my people to M c Leod , s 

 Lake, in order that they may be in readiness 

 to embark for the Rainy Lake, as soon as the 

 navigation opens. By them I have, as usual, for- 

 warded my letters, and accounts of the place. If 

 God permit, I shall pass another summer at this 

 place, having with me ten persons. 



As this is the only season of the year when 

 we can leave this country, now it is, that we have 

 the most ardent desire of visiting the land of our 

 nativity. At other seasons, the impossibility of a 

 departure, suppresses the rising wish to go, stern 

 necessity binds us to our situation, and we rest in 



