aper when he
quitted us, but he declined it, having then a note-book;
and Mr. Back gave him a pencil.

"I, however, wrote this news on a plank, in pencil, and placed it
in the top of your former bedstead, where I left it. Since it has
not been found there, some Indians must have gone to the house
after my departure, and destroyed it. These details, Sir, I have
been induced to enter into (rather unexpectedly) in justification
of myself, and hope it will be satisfactory."

In a subsequent conversation he stated to me, that the two Indians, who
were actually with him at Fort Enterprise, whilst he remained there
altering his canoe, were prevented from hunting; one by an accidental
lameness, the other by the fear of meeting alone some of the Dog-Rib
Indians.

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 gave all our Canadian voyagers
their discharges, 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, where we arrived on the
14th of July, and were received with every mark of attention and
kindness by Mr. Simpson, the Governor, Mr. McTavish, 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.

THE END.

[Illustration: Route from York Factory]

[Illustration: Route from Isle a la Crosse]

[Illustration: Route from Slave Lake]

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LONDON:
PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES,
Northumberland-court.

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Transcriber's corrections and comments:

1. Original had "throngh"; corrected to "through".

2. Assume -45 deg. 5' means -45.5 deg., but possibly this could also
be -45-5/60 deg.

3. Original had "phenemenon"; corrected to "phenomenon".

4. The context of soap making indicates that "ley" is most likely a
misprint for "lye".

5. Original had "holyday"; corrected to "holiday" (as in 2nd
edition).