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advantage of this occasion to speak to them 

 respecting the Supreme Being, who ordered 

 all the operations of nature, and to impress 

 on their minds the necessity of paying strict 

 attention to their moral duties, in obedience 

 to his will. They readily assented to all 

 these points, and Akaitcho assured us that 

 both himself and his young men would exert 

 themselves in obtaining provision for us, in 

 return for the interesting communications 

 we had just made to them. 



Having received a supply of dried meat 

 from the Indian lodges, we were enabled to 

 equip the party for the Copper-Mine River, 

 and at nine A.M. on the 29th Mr. Back and 

 Mr. Hood embarked on that service in a 

 light canoe, with St. Germain, eight Cana- 

 dians, and one Indian. We could not fur- 

 nish them with more than eight days' pro- 

 vision, which, with their blankets, two tents, 

 and a few instruments, composed their 

 lading. Mr. Back, who had charge of the 

 party, was directed to proceed to the river, 

 and if, when he arrived at its banks, the 

 weather should continue to be mild, and the 



