We encamped for the night on a rocky island and by eight A.M.on the following morning arrived at Fort Providence which is situated twenty-one miles from the entrance of the bay.

The post is exclusively occupied by the North-West Company, the Hudson's Bay Company having no settlement to the northward of Great Slave Lake.

We found Mr.Wentzel and our interpreter Jean Baptiste Adam here with one of the Indian guides: but the chief of the tribe and his hunters were encamped with their families some miles from the fort in a good situation for fishing.

Our arrival was announced to him by a fire on the top of a hill, and before night a messenger came to communicate his intention of seeing us next morning.

The customary present of tobacco and some other articles was immediately sent to him.
Mr.Wentzel prepared me for the first conference with the Indians by mentioning all the information they had already given to him.