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A JOURNEY TO THE SHORES 



sizes. Our provision was two casks of flour, two hundred dried rein- 

 deer tongues, some dried moose meat, portable soup, and arrow- 

 root, sufficient in the whole for ten days' consumption, besides two 

 cases of chocolate, and two canisters of tea. We engaged another 

 Canadian voyager at this place, and the expedition then consisted of 

 twenty-eight persons, including the officers, and the wives of three 

 of our voyagers, who were brought for the purpose of making shoes 

 and clothes for the men at the winter establishment ; there were 

 also three children, belonging to two of these women *. 



Our observations place Fort Providence in latitude 62° 17' 19" N"., 

 longitude 114° 9' 28" W. ; the variation of the compass is 33° 35' 55' 

 E., and dip of the needle 86° 38' 02". It is distant from Moose-Deer 

 Island sixty-six geographic miles. This is the last establishment 

 of the traders in this direction, but the North- West Company 

 have two to the northward of it, on the Mackenzie Eiver. It has 

 been erected for the convenience of the Copper and Dog-rib Indians, 



* The following is the list of the officers and men who composed the expedition on its 

 departure from Fort Providence : 



John Franklin, Lieutenant of the Royal Navy and Commander. 

 John Richardson, M.D., Surgeon of the Royal Navy. 

 Mr. George Back, of the Royal Navy, Admiralty Midshipman. 

 Mr. Robert Hood, of the Royal Navy, Admiralty Midshipman. 

 Mr. Frederick Wentzel, Clerk to the North- West Company. 

 John Hepburn, English seaman. 



Canadian Voyagers. 



Joseph Peltier, Joseph Forcier, Jean Baptiste Parent, 



Mathew Pelonquin, dit Credit, Ignace Perrault, Jean Baptiste Belanger, 



Solomon Belanger, Francais Samandre, Jean Baptiste Belleau, 



J oseph Bennoit, Gabriel Beauparlant Emanuel Cournoyee, 



Joseph Gagne, Vincenza Fontano, Michel Teroahaute an 



Pierre Dumas, Registe Vaillant, Troquois. 



Pierre St. Germain, 



Interpreters. 

 J ean Baptiste Adan> 



Chipewyan Bois Brules. 



