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friend, and recommenced our journey, but 

 under the expectation of seeing him again 

 in May ; at which time the partners of the 

 Company usually assemble at Fort Chipew- 

 yan, where we hoped the necessary ar- 

 rangements for our future proceedings 

 would be completed. We encamped at 

 sunset at the end of fourteen miles, having 

 walked the whole way along the river, 

 which preserves nearly a true north course, 

 and is from four hundred to six hundred 

 yards broad. The banks are high, and 

 well clothed with the Hard, spruce, fir, 

 alder, birch- tree, and willows. Having 

 come nineteen miles and a half, on the 23d, 

 we encamped among pines of a great height 

 and girth. 



Showers of snow fell until noon on the 

 following day, but we continued our journey 

 along the river, whose banks and islands 

 became gradually lower as we advanced, 

 and less abundantly supplied with wood, 

 except willows. We passed an old Cana- 

 dian, who was resting his wearied dogs 

 during the heat of the sun. He was carry- 



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