Our provision was two casks of flour, two hundred dried reindeer tongues, some dried moose-meat, portable soup, and arrowroot, sufficient in the whole for ten days' consumption, besides two cases of chocolate, and two canisters of tea.

We engaged another Canadian voyager at this place and the Expedition then consisted of twenty-eight persons, including the officers, and the wives of three of our voyagers, who were brought for the purpose of making shoes and clothes for the men at the winter establishment; there were also three children belonging to two of these women.* (*Footnote.

The following is the list of the officers and men who composed the Expedition on its departure from Fort Providence: John Franklin, Lieutenant of the Royal Navy and Commander.
John Richardson, M.D., Surgeon of the Royal Navy.
Mr.George Back, of the Royal Navy, Admiralty Midshipman.
Mr.Robert Hood, of the Royal Navy, Admiralty Midshipman.
Mr.Frederick Wentzel, Clerk to the North-West Company.
John Hepburn, English seaman.
Canadian voyagers: Joseph Peltier, Matthew Pelonquin, dit Credit, Solomon Belanger, Joseph Benoit, Joseph Gagne, Pierre Dumas, Joseph Forcier, Ignace Perrault, Francois Samandre, Gabriel Beauparlant, Vincenza Fontano, Registe Vaillant, Jean Baptiste Parent, Jean Baptiste Belanger, Jean Baptiste Belleau, Emanuel Cournoyee, Michel Teroahaute, an Iroquois, Interpreters: Pierre St.Germain, Jean Baptiste Adam, Chipewyan Bois Brules.) Our observations place Fort Providence in latitude 62 degrees 17 minutes 19 seconds North, longitude 114 degrees 9 minutes 28 seconds West; the variation of the compass is 33 degrees 35 minutes 55 seconds East and the dip of the needle 86 degrees 38 minutes 02 seconds.

It is distant from Moose-Deer Island sixty-six geographic miles.

This is the last establishment of the traders in this direction, but the North-West Company have two to the northward of it on the Mackenzie River.