We were here furnished with a canoe by Mr. Smith, and a bowman,
to act as our guide; and having left Fort Chipewyan on the
5th, we arrived, on the 4th of July, at Norway House. Finding at
this place, that canoes were about to go down to Montreal, I discharged
all our Canadian voyagers and sent them by those vessels,
furnishing them with orders on the Agent of the Hudson’s Bay
Company, for the Amount of their wages. We carried Augustus
down to York Factory, were we arrived on the 14th of July, and
were received with every mark of attention and kindness by
Mr. Simpson, the Governor, Mr. M’Tavish, and, indeed, by all the
officers of the United Companies. And thus terminated our long,
fatiguing, and disastrous travels in North America, having journeyed
by water and by land (including our navigation of the Polar Sea),
five thousand five hundred and fifty miles.
END OF THE NARRATIVE.
