. . C H A P T E R H.
Landed a t fam e fopg/LS-of f& d -K a fe J u lia n s: procu re one o f thevp> to ajjijl
in navigating the bays. Conference with the Indians. Take leave o f
M . Le Roux, and continue the voyage.- ■ I)ffe ren t appearances o f the land',
its Vegetable produce. F if t anri/land where the wood had been fe lle d .
Further d e fcrip tio n o f ike Cdaft. P lenty o f rein and moofe+deer, and
'-E n ter a very deep bay. Interrupted by ice. Fery
blowing weather. Continue to coajt the bay. Arrive -.at the mouth o f
d r iv e r . G reat numbers o f fifh and wildfowl. D efcription o f the land
on either f d e . ~ Curious appearance o f woods th a t had been burned.
Came in fig h t o f the Horn Mountain. Continue to k ill g e fe and fw an s,
& c. V io len tfo rm .
J“««- ‘ - i ‘ * " ‘ ~ '
Tuefday 23. JL'o WARDS morning, the Indians who had not been able to keep up
with us the preceding day, now joined us, and brought two fwans and a
goofe. At half paft three we re-embarked, and fleering Weft by North a
mile and an half, with a Northerly wind, we camé to the foot of a traverfe
acrofs a deep bay, Weft five miles, which receives a confiderable river at
the bottom of it ; the diftance about twelve miles. The North-Weft
fide of the bay was covered with many fmall iflands that were furrounded
with ièe ; but the wind driving it a little off the land, we had a dear
paffage on the infide o f them. We fleered South-Weft nine miles under
fail,
then- North-Weft 'neatly, through the iflafids, Forming a) courfe- of
fix teen miles. We landed on the main land at half -paft Mo in the afternoon
at three lodges of Red-Knife Indians, fo called from their copper
knives. They informed us, 'that effete were many more lodges of their
friends at no -great • diftance ; and one o f the Indians ffet off to ;fetch
thefti: they alfo that we Ihould fee no mote of tfhena at pi-efedt; as
the SkVe »affd BetfVdf IudiMs, as? well fes. oihdrs ;of the trifle, woiild not
tteit fh&fwaWse^ their feat&rsi ; In t ie a f e r a t a
It ¥aSMd* & tOffCWt.“'
M. Le RW jI pufhhsfed t# tfeefc Itidiais uptvards p&eksrof Wedrif a*.
^*0©<§! fifid hiafteff ffelhs; tiijd tfehi^‘ ^&¥^s hdfe?ab6ve twpto'e.of •
t a l l i e d to kiM Mav6|. Th& E^glffh ©Mef gm upwardstof ari
hflndfed fkihS 6ri;the fcrir£ of debtr'I^'tO Him, of Whidhfle had many'
flfitftAfldkg ini this efltrhtfy. Fotty o f theM; Me Oh account flf^deflts
«*4 1787» a» thje. Slave Lakd;< the
tefe-he exchanged- for Him .a&d ptheri necefeyt articles t a»d lid d ed a
fidalfcquantity of that liqpoh'as.a^encouragi«^; pfefeiitvlfl Him add his
young.menc .1. had feveral copftdtations with -thefe Copper Indian
feat’ dbuM obtain nfl infor'Maiien that was» material to our expe-
riitiom; qor 'wereythey acquainted with any part of the river, which was
the obijefikof my refearch, but the mputh of it. In ord^to lave as much
tiffltfas poffible in :cflcumna^igaAg theibays^I engaged one ,Of the Indians
!t^ < ^ Us ; and ! accocdksgfyi equipped him with various
articles of clothing, &e. I alfo' put chafed a large new canoe, that he
might embark wMi the. two'::youhg.Indiahs in' my fervidei
This day, at nöon, I took an obfervation, which gave me 62. 24. North
D latitude ;