We regretted to find the posts of both the Companies extremely bare of provision but, as the gentlemen in charge had despatched men on the preceding evening to a band of Indians in search of meat and they promised to furnish us with whatever should be brought, it was deemed advisable to wait for their return as the smallest supply was now of importance to us.

Advantage was taken of the delay to repair effectually the canoe which had been broken in the Dog Rapid.

On the next evening the men arrived with the meat and enabled Mr.McLeod of the North-West Company to furnish us with four hundred pounds of dried provisions.

Mr.
McVicar of the Hudson's Bay Company also supplied one hundred and fifty pounds.

This quantity we considered would be sufficient until we could join the hunters.