OF THE TOLAR SEA. 183 



In the afternoon we read divine service, 

 and offered our thanksgiving to the Almighty 

 for his goodness in having brought us thus 

 far on our journey; a duty which we never 

 neglected when stationary on the sabbath. 



The united length of the portages we had 

 crossed, since leaving Fort Providence, is 

 twenty-one statute miles and a half ; and as 

 our men had to traverse each portage four 

 times, with a load of one hundred and eighty 

 pounds, and return three times light, they 

 walked in the whole upwards of one hun- 

 dred and fifty miles. The total length of 

 our voyage from Chipewyan is five hundred 

 and fifty- three miles.* 



A fire was made on the south side of the 

 river, to inform the chief of our arrival, 



Statute Miles. 



* Stony and Slave Rivers 260 



Slave Lake 107 



Yellow-Knife River 156.5 



Barren country between the source of the 

 Yellow-Knife River and Fort Enter- 

 prise 29.5 



553 



