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CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER VII. 



Departure from Chipewyan — Difficulties of the 

 various Navigation of the Rivers and Lakes, 

 and of the Portages — Slave Lake and Fort 

 Providence — Scarcity of Provisions, and Dis- 

 content of the Canadian Voyagers — Difficul- 

 ties with regard to the Indian Guides — -Re- 

 fusal to proceed — Visit of Observation to the 

 upper part of Copper-Mine River — Return to 

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CHAPTER VIII. 

 Transactions at Fort Enterprise. . . . 214 



