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harmon's journal. 



Tuesday, September 20. We have had but few 

 salmon here, this year. It is only in every second 

 season, that they are very numerous ; the reason 

 of which, I am unable to assign. 



I have sent an Indian, with letters, to Dunve- 

 gan, on Peace River, which is distant from this 

 place, at least, five hundred miles. 



Friday, 30. We have had but a few salmon 

 hi this river, during the past season. We hope, 

 however, that a kind Providence has sent them to 

 some of our neighbouring villages, where we shall 

 be able to purchase what will be necessary, in ad- 

 dition to the white fish, which we expect to take, 

 for our consumption, during the ensuing winter. 

 But let my condition be ever so deplorable, I am 

 resolved to place all my dependence on that Be- 

 ing, who depends on no one. 



Tuesday, October 18. This afternoon, I was 

 agreeably surprised by the arrival of Mr. J. La 

 Roque and company, in two canoes, laden with 

 goods, from Fort George, at the mouth of the Co- 

 lumbia River, which place they left, the latter 

 part of last August. Our vessels arrived there, in 

 the months of March and April ; and, soon after, 

 one of them set sail again, loaded with furs, for 

 Canton in China.- — Mr. La Roque brings the mel- 

 ancholy intelligence, that Messrs. D. M c Tavish, 

 Alexander Henry, and five sailors were drowned. 



