of our ram to fortify and fupport them. Tbe canoe was fot heavy that
1— V— ' the lives of two of them were endangered in this horrible carrying place.
A t .the fame time.it muft be observed;. that, from th£ fa tigu in g jr’cum?
- .fiance,s of, oux> journey, and the^inadequate ftat^pf our.pfcoyifipnsj the
natural ftrength of the men had been greatly .dimimfhed.f We encamped
on the banks o f the, bad river. „ rr
Thurfday 15. -5 The weather was now clear, and the fun fhone upon us,. The. wat.gr
was much lower than in the downward paffage, but.a^fqldisa.S- i?e,| and,
unfortunately,:the;'-men were obliged to bg continually fn itjtp^r^gon
thepanqp., There w,ere many embarrap, throog^^jijch aupaffage.might
have J?een made,
canoe and baggage.:
About, fun-fet we arrived at pun pnCampment pf thopigth.i^Jnhii
where fonae o f us had nearly takenoUr pternal-ypytige,:, iTiLeffqgs add
feet ©f t&%i$en .y^re fo benumbed, that l wasjvpjy ap-p£ekejj<liivpipf t'he
ponfequenpes, The. jyater bfeirtglow;, we ma(fe a fe%t.eh!fmv<^|r-ebag.pf
.balls, but without fuceefs. The river was full of falmon,; andiianother
filh like the black bafs. .
Friday 16. - The weathenpqntinued to be the fame as yefterday, and at,two m the
afternoon \ye. came to the carrying-place; which, leads to the -firfi ljnall
lake; but it was fo filled; with drift wood, that a/conhderable pprtion of
time.was emplpyed in makmaffiURwayi thmifgh.it. We now-reached the
high land which, feparates the fource. of the,.Tacoutche/Tefie;pr:lGplumb,ia
River, and, Unjigah, or Peace River: .thefatter oFyducbj after receiving
many
many tributary ftreams, paffes through the great Slave Lake, and dif- *793*
embogues itfelf in the Frozen Ocean, in latitude North, longitude J
~r§5- Weft from Greenwich; while the former, confined by the immenfe
mountains that fun nearly parallel with the Pacific Ocean, and keep it
inr,a Southern cbürfe, empties itfelf in 46. 20. North latitude and longitude
JP24. Weft from Greenwich.
I f I could havé: fpared the time, and had been able tö exert myfelf;
for I wasf now afflicted with a'fwelling' in my ancles^ fó that I cóUld nöt
even walk, but with great pain and difficulty,;’it was. my’intêntión to
have taken.fame falmon • alive, and colonifed’ them in the Peace River,
though it is, very doubtful whether that filh would live -in waters that
have not a communication with the fea.
■ Some of the inhabitants had been here finee we paffed; and I apprehend,
that on feeing our road through their country, they miftook us
for enemies, and had therefore deferted the place, Which is a moft con-
venient ftation; as on bne fide- there is gréat' plenty of white fifh, and
trout, jub, carp, &c. and on the' other, abundance-pf Ialmon, and probably
other fifh. Several things that I had left here in exchange for
articles of which I had poflèffed myfelf, as obje&s o f curiofity, were
taken away. Thé whir tie berries were now ripe, and very fine o f their
kind. *
The morning was cloudy, and at five we renewed our progrefs. We' Saturday 17.
were compelled to carry from the lake to the Peace River, the paffage,
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