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John Stuart, who has arrived at M c Leod's Lake 9 

 desiring me to go and superintend the affairs at 

 Frazer's Lake, and to send Mr. La Roque, with 

 several of the people who are there, to this place, 

 that they may return to the Columbia department, 

 where it is presumed they will be more wanted, 

 than in this quarter. Tomorrow, therefore, I 

 shall depart for Frazer's Lake. 



Thursday, November 3. Frazer's hake. Here 

 we - arrived this afternoon, and found Mr. La 

 Roque and his people, busily employed, in barter- 

 ing with the Natives, for furs and salmon, and in 

 constructing houses. With this gentleman, I have 

 spent a pleasant evening ; and I am happy to find 

 that, from having been thoughtless and dissolute, 

 he now appears to be the reverse of this. It is 

 manifest, that he has recently reflected much, on 

 the vanity of this world, and on the importance of 

 the concerns of eternity; and he now appears deter- 

 mined, by the aids of God's Holy Spirit, on a tho- 

 rough reformation. May he be enabled to perse- 

 vere in this important undertaking. 



Tuesday, December 20. Messrs. Stuart and 

 M c Dougall, with a number of men, have arrived 

 from Stuart's Lake, for the purpose of proceeding 

 with me to Stilla, in order to purchase salmon. 

 The Indians of this village have not a sufficiency 

 for themselves and for us, owing to the scarcity of 



