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to return our grateful praises to the Al- 

 mighty for the manifold instances of his 

 mercy towards us. Having found here 

 some articles which Mr. Back had sent 

 across from Moose-Deer Island, I deter- 

 mined on awaiting the arrival of Akaitcho 

 and his party, in order to present these to 

 them, and to assure them of the promised 

 reward, as soon as it could possibly be pro- 

 cured. 



In the afternoon of the 14th, Akaitcho, 

 with his whole band, came to the Fort. He 

 smoked his customary pipe, and made an 

 address to Mr. Weeks in the hall previous 

 to his coming into the room in which Dr. 

 Richardson and I were. We discovered 

 at the commencement of his speech to us, 

 that he had been informed that our ex- 

 pected supplies had not come. He spoke 

 of this circumstance as a disappointment, 

 indeed, sufficiently severe to himself, to 

 whom his band looked up for the protection 

 of their interests, but without attaching any 

 blame to us. " The world goes badly," he 

 said, " all are poor ; you are poor, the 

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