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We were detained some time in the fol- 

 lowing morning before the fishing nets, 

 which had sunk in the night, could be re- 

 covered. 



After starting we first crossed the Orkney 

 Lake, then a portage which brought us to 

 Sandy Lake, and here we missed one of our 

 barrels of powder, which the steersman of 

 the canoe then recollected had been left the 

 day before. He and two other men were 

 sent back to search for it, in the small canoe. 

 The rest of the party proceeded to the 

 portage on the north side of the Grizzle- 

 Bear Lake, where the hunters had made a 

 deposit of meat, and there encamped to 

 await their return, which happened at nine 

 P.M., with the powder. We perceived, 

 from the direction of this lake, that consi- 

 derable labour would have been spared if 

 I we had continued our course yesterday 

 j instead of striking off at the guide's sug- 

 gestion, as the bottom of this lake cannot 

 I be far separated from either Hunter's Lake 

 i or the one to the westward of it. The chief 

 \i and all the Indians went off to hunt, accom- 



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