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and returned to Fort Good Hope by an overland march to Hareskin 

 River and by descending that stream. 



In the summer of 1860, the Hudson's Bay Company having decided 

 to establish a post on the Anderson, MacFarlane made another trip 

 to that river for the purpose of setting a party to work preparing 

 lumber for the construction of the buildings. On this occasion he 

 followed a new route, leaving the Mackenzie a few miles below the 

 site of old Fort Good Hope and pursuing a general easterly course 

 through several lakes connected by portages of varying lengths to a 

 stream (named by him the Onion River), a tributary of the Lockhart. 

 Descending the Lockhart to the Anderson, he found suitable timber 

 on the Anderson River 10 miles above this junction. A temporary 

 establishment was erected at this place, called by him ' Shantyville,' 



Fig. 4. — Fort Anderson, Anderson River (from sketch by Emile Petitot, March, 1865). 



and several men were left to prepare lumber, while MacFarlane re- 

 turned to Fort Good Hope by practically the same route followed on 

 his outward trip. Subsequenth^ this new route was abandoned in 

 favor of the earlier one, explored in 1857. 



In May, 1861, MacFarlane returned to the Anderson, and on the 

 breaking up of the ice rafted the lumber down to the proposed site, 

 on the right bank of the Anderson, approximate^ in latitude 68° 35', 

 where the post was built during the summer (fig. 4). No natural his- 

 tory work was done that season, but in the succeeding summer col- 

 lecting was begun in earnest, and was continued, mainly during the 

 summer seasons, until the post was abandoned in the summer of 

 1866. In addition to MacFarlane's personal collections many speci- 



