. A journey from Prince of Wales's Fort, in Hudson's Bay, to the northern ocean [microform] : undertaken by order of the Hudson's Bay Company for the discovery of copper mines, a north west passage, &c. in the years 1769, 1770, 1771 & 1772. Indians of North America; Natural history; Indiens; Sciences naturelles. ^ I â ii. â ; â I- f. A JOURNEY TO THE otherwife the Governor woulc^ 'ave faluted me at my departure, as before; but as the ^e honours could not pofTibly be of any fervice to luj expedition, I readily relinquifhed every thing of the kind ; and in lieu of it, the Governor, offic
. A journey from Prince of Wales's Fort, in Hudson's Bay, to the northern ocean [microform] : undertaken by order of the Hudson's Bay Company for the discovery of copper mines, a north west passage, &c. in the years 1769, 1770, 1771 & 1772. Indians of North America; Natural history; Indiens; Sciences naturelles. ^ I â ii. â ; â I- f. A JOURNEY TO THE otherwife the Governor woulc^ 'ave faluted me at my departure, as before; but as the ^e honours could not pofTibly be of any fervice to luj expedition, I readily relinquifhed every thing of the kind ; and in lieu of it, the Governor, officers, and people, inlifted on giving me three cheers. After leaving the Fadlory, we continued our courfe in much the fame diredion as in my former journey, till we arrived at Seal River ; when, inftead of crofling it, and walking on the barren grounds as before, we followed the courfe of the river, except in two particular places, where the bends tended fo much to the South, that by crofllng two necks of land not more than five or fix miles wide, Ave faved,the walking of near twenty miles each time, and ilill came to the main river again. The weather had been fo remarkably bo'fterous and â changeable, that we were frequently obliged to continue two or three nights in t3ie fame place. To noke up for this inconveniency, deer were fo plentiful for the firft eight or ten days, that the Indians killed as many as was neceflary ; but we were all fo heavy laden that we could not poflibly take much of the meat with us. This I foon perceived to be a great evil, which expofed us to fuch fre- quent inconveniences, that in cafe of not killing any thing for three or four days together, we were in great want of pro- v^fions J wp fejidom, howeya', we^t to bed entirely fuppcrjels till ti«'. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble
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