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small and the hills come dose in upon the banks of 
it, covered thick with standing timber and fallen 
trees ; so that in some places we were obliged to go 
«p the sides of the hills, which are very steep, and 
then down again in order to get along at all. In go- 
ing up these ascents the horses would sometimes fall 
backwards, which injured them very much ; and 
one w^as so badly hurt that the driver v/as obliged to 
leave his load on the side of one of the hills. In the 
low ground there are most beautiful tall strait pine 
trees of diiferent kinds, except of white pine. Game 
is scarce ; and a small qu^mtity of dried salmon, 
which we got from the natives is almost our whole 
stock of provisions. A son of our guide joined us to 
day and is going on. We w^ent 13 miles and encamp- 
ed ; but some of the men did not come up till late 
at night. 
Tuesday 3rd, The morning of this day was cloudy 
and cool. Two men went back with a horse to bring 
on the load, wdiich had been left behind last night ; 
and we breakfasted on the last of our salmon and 
"Waited their return, Tw^o hunters were sent on a- 
head, and on the return of the two men, who had 
been sent back, we pursued our journey up the 
creek, which still continued fatiguing almost beyond 
description. The country is very mountainous and 
thickly timbered ; mostly with spruce pine. Having 
gone nine miles we halted for dinner, v/hich was 
composed of a small porlion of flour we had along 
and the last of our pork^ v/hich was but a trifle : — 
Our hunters had not killed any thing. Vv'c staid 
here about two hours, during which time some rain 
fell and the weather was extremely cold for the sea- 
son. We then wxnt on about 3 miles over a large 
mountain, to the head of another creek and encamp- 
ed there for the night. This was not the creek our 
guide vashed to have come upon ; and to add to our 
Dciisfortunes we bad a cold evening with rain« 
