I also informed Mr.Simpson, principal agent in the Athabasca for the Hudson's Bay Company who had proffered every assistance in his power, that we should gladly avail ourselves of the kind intentions expressed in a letter which I had received from him.
We also sent a number of broken axes to Slave Lake to be repaired.

The dog that came to us on the 22nd of October and had become very familiar followed the party.

We were in hopes that it might prove of some use in dragging their loads but we afterwards learned that on the evening after their departure from the house they had the cruelty to kill and eat it although they had no reason to apprehend a scarcity of provision.

A dog is considered to be delicate eating by the voyagers.
The mean temperature of the air for November was minus 0.7 degrees.

The greatest heat observed was 25 degrees above and the least 31 degrees below zero.
On the 1st of December the sky was clear, a slight appearance of stratus only being visible near the horizon, but a kind of snow fell at intervals in the forenoon, its particles so minute as to be observed only in the sunshine.