118 THROUGH THE MACRENEIN BASS

women to take their dacs. Tels ahiefs aad te howe
fo Gower sare ever thelr gen fall, and Haale cue
jurer were supported by soleatery coatethadions of pewel-
sions, These are some of the abdaf characteristies Frankia
gates of the Tadisns who fragrestad Fert Gidaeyen, af
which point be apent aevers] month. Ose aetrontiaary
aireucistancs, Rowerar, namaine te be mentioned. 3s bs that
af s young Chipewran whe Jost ke wife ic her Seat gine
ganey, He applied che child te bis left bromat, fea whieh
a Sw of sailk took place. © The brea,” be adda, @ baame
of am upnevel size” Here he gad Beck, ahterwards
Admiral Baek, were jcined by Dy. Hichardson and MMe
Hood, who had coms from Comberlsad House by dhe dhs
oult Chusshiil River route, aad on July 28th, at neon, the
whule party Jeft the fort oa their tragic axpadition, the
party, agide fram those named, cousiating of Joba Nepbura,
seaman, ax Intergreter aud fifteen voyager, ineleding,
untortnaately, am Trognois Indias, ealled Michal Taras:
hante. At two pan. they entered Goeat Slave River, hore
threequarters of a aie wile, and, passing Bed Der Talands
and Dog Hivar, enconniared the rapida, overcame by agren
ar sight partages, from uke Casetie tc the Portage af che
Drowned, all verying in loagth from seventy fo aight
buadeed yards,

fim the Sist they fended at dhe mouth of Sait River a
lay in a supply of aaht for their Journey, the dapaaite bye
byensyiwo mddes ug by stream, These asteral pang, of sald
plains, he daveribes-~and the deseription anewers for today
~eat “bounded on ihe north and west by « ridge between
gix and seven hundred fact high Several sale aprings kane
xt ita foot, and apread over the plain, whieh ds of tensions
clay, sad, eraponsting ip semeser, eeyataliies in che foe
of cubes, The polsson ineonan, a species of uslmon whiak
ssconde from the Arotie Qooan, ia not found, be says, shores
das stream. A few railes bedow 4, however, a badfisie
pheaged into the river before them, whick they MGad, acd
those animals ail frequeat the ragian.