M R North-Weft four miles, Weft fix miles, doubled a point North-North-
' 1 Raft one mile, .Eaft ft we miles, North two miles, North-Weft by North
one mile and a half,, Weft-North-Weft three miles, North-Eaft by Eaft'
two miles, doubled a point one mile and a half, Weft by Ndrth nine
miles, North-Weft by Weft fix miles, North-North-Weft'five miles?
here we ,landed at fix o’clock in the evening, unloaded, and encamped.
Nets were alfo let in a fmall adjacent river. We had an head wind'*
during the greater part o f the day, and die weather was become fo ©old
that the Indians were obliged to' make ufe o f their mittens. In this
day’s progrefs we killed feven geefe and fix ducks.
Sunday 7- A t fialf paft three we renewed our voyage, and proceeded Well-
North-Weft one mile, round an ifland one .mile,, North-Weft two miles
ar*d half, South by Weft three, miles, Weft^Squth:'VV'eft one mile,
South-Weft by South half a mile, North-Weft three miles, jyeft-Nofth-
Weft three miles and a half, North feven miles and a. half, NorthrWeft
by wiles, North two miles and a half, North^eft'by-North
two miles. The rain, which had prevailed for fame time, now came on
with fuyh violence, that we were obliged to land .and unload*to prevent
the goods and baggage from getting.wet; the .weather,, however, foqn
cleared up, fo that we refeadedthe canoe4 and got under way.. We now
continued our courfe North ten miles, Weft one mile and a half, and North
one mile and a half, when the rain came on again, and rendered it abfo-
lutely neceftary for ns tq get on Chore for the night, at about Jhalf paft
three. We had a ftrong North-North-Eaft wind throughout the day,
which greatly impeded us ; M. Le Roux, however, with his party, paffed
on in fearch of a landing place more agreeable to them. The Indians
killed a couple o f geefe, and as many ducks. The rain continued
through the remaining part o f the day.
The
The night was very böïfterous, and the taM did not ceafe till two in
the afternoott of this day ; but as* the wind did not abatè o f its violence,
We were prevented from proceeding till the morrow.
We embarked at half paft two in the mdrning, the weather bem^fealrö Tueidays,
and foggy. Soon after out two young men joined us, whom We had not
feën for two days; but during their âbfencë* they1-had killéd Ifbur
Beavers and ten geefe.1- After a; esutfe of one mile North-Weft*
by Nofthy we obferved an ‘opening on the right- which we took
for a fork o f the river, bût if proved to be a lake. We returned and
fteered South-Weft by Weft one mile and a half, Weft-South-Weft one
mile and a half, Weft One mile, when we entered a very fmall branch of
the river on the Eaft bank ; at thé1 mouth o f which I was informed there
had been' a Carrying place, owing to the quantity o f drift wood, which
then filled up the paffage, but has finceb’een carried away. . The courfe
of this river is meandering; and tends £o the North, and in about ten
miles falls into the Slave Lake, where we arrived at nine m the morning,
’when we found a great change in the weather',, âs it Vas became
extremely Cold. The lake was entirely covered with -ïefe, and did5 not t
feem in any degree to have given way, but near the {fibre. ' The gnats
and muïkitoes which Werè very troublefome during ovir paffage along
thé river, did not venture to accompany us to this colder region.
The banks of the river both above and below the rapide, weré on
both ft dès covered with the various kinds of wood common to this
country ; particularly the Weftern fide; the land being lower and confift-
ing of a rich black'ibiK This artificial ground is carried down by the
ftream,
Monday 8.