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with which he administered to our personal 

 wants. After this conference, such Indians 

 as were indebted to the Company were paid 

 for the provision they had given us, by de- 

 ducting a corresponding sum from their 

 debts ; in the same way we gave a reward 

 of sixteen skins of beaver to each of the 

 persons who had come to our relief at Fort 

 Enterprise. As the debts of Akaitcho 

 and his hunters had been effaced at the 

 time of his engagement with us, we placed 

 a sum equal to the amount of provision they 

 had recently supplied, to their credit on the 

 Company's Books. These things being, 

 through the moderation of the Indians, ad- 

 justed with an unexpected facility, we gave 

 them a keg of mixed liquors (five parts 

 water,) and distributed among them several 

 fathoms of tobacco, and they retired to their 

 tents to spend the night in merriment. 



Adam, our interpreter, being desirous of 

 uniting himself with the Copper Indians, 

 applied to me for his discharge, which I 

 granted, and gave him a bill on the Hud- 



