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the first delineation. The latter was elder 

 brother to Akaitcho, and he said that he 

 had accompanied Mr. Hearne on his journey, 

 and though very young at the time, still 

 remembered many of the circumstances, and 

 particularly the massacre committed by the 

 Indians on the Esquimaux. 



They pointed out another lake to the 

 southward of the river, about three days' 

 journey distant from it, on which the chief 

 proposed the next winter's establishment 

 should be formed, as the rein-deer would 

 pass there in the autumn and spring. Its 

 waters contained fish, and there was a suf- 

 ficiency of wood for building as well as for 

 the winter's consumption. These were im- 

 portant considerations, and determined me 

 in pursuing the route they now proposed. 

 They could not inform us what time we 

 should take in reaching the lake, until they 

 saw our manner of travelling in the large 

 canoes, but they supposed we might be about 

 twenty days, in which case I entertained the 

 hope that if we could then procure provision 

 we should have time to descend the Copper- 



