Mr.Franklin had made arrangements with Mr.Williams for the employment of the remaining five men in bringing to Cumberland House the ammunition, tobacco, etc., left at York Fort, which stores were if possible to be sent after us in the summer.

On the 30th Dr.Richardson returned from Carlton House, and on the 31st the boats arrived belonging to the Hudson's Bay Company's Saskatchewan department.

We obtained a canoe and two more volunteers.

On the 1st of June the Saskatchewan, swelled by the melting of the snow near the Rocky Mountains, rose twelve feet and the current of the little rivers bounding Pine Island ran back into the lake, which it filled with mud.
On the 5th the North-West Company's people arrived and Mr.Connolly furnished us with a canoe and five Canadians.

They were engaged to attend us till Mr.Franklin should think fit to discharge them and bound under the usual penalties in case of disobedience or other improper conduct.
These poor people entertained such dread of a ship of war that they stipulated not to be embarked in Lieutenant Parry's vessels if we should find them on the coast, a condition with which they would gladly have dispensed had that desirable event taken place.