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determined on pursuing it, and immediately 

 communicated my intention to the gover- 

 nor, with a request that he would furnish 

 me with the means of conveyance for the 

 party as speedily as possible. 



It was suggested in my instructions that 

 we might probably secure a schooner at 

 this place, to proceed north as far as Wager 

 Bay; but the vessel alluded to was lying 

 at Moose Factory completely out of repair ; 

 independently of which, the route directly 

 to the northward was rendered impracti- 

 cable by the impossibility of procuring hun- 

 ters and guides on the coast. 



I found that as the Esquimaux inhabit- 

 ants had left Churchill a month previous to 

 our arrival, no interpreter from that quarter 

 could be procured before their return in 

 the following spring. The governor, how- 

 ever, undertook to forward to us, next 

 season, the only one amongst them who 

 understood English, if he could be induced 

 to go. 



The governor selected one of the largest 

 of the Company's boats for our use on the 



