Of this amusement the voyagers were very fond and not the less so as it was now and then accompanied by a dram as long as our rum lasted.
On the 5th of February two Canadians came from Akaitcho for fresh supplies of ammunition.

We were mortified to learn that he had received some further unpleasant reports concerning us from Fort Providence and that his faith in our good intentions was somewhat shaken.

He expressed himself dissatisfied with the quantity of ammunition we had sent him, accused us of an intention of endeavouring to degrade him in the eyes of his tribe, and informed us that Mr.Weeks had refused to pay some notes for trifling quantities of goods and ammunition that had been given to the hunters who accompanied our men to Slave Lake.
Some powder and shot and a keg of diluted spirits were sent to him with the strongest assurances of our regard.
On the 12th another party of six men was sent to Fort Providence to bring up the remaining stores.

St.Germain went to Akaitcho for the purpose of sending two of his hunters to join this party on its route.
On comparing the language of our two Esquimaux with a copy of St.John's Gospel printed for the use of the Moravian Missionary Settlements on the Labrador coast it appeared that the Esquimaux who resort to Churchill speak a language essentially the same with those who frequent the Labrador Coast.

The Red Knives too recognise the expression Teyma, used by the Esquimaux when they acost strangers in a friendly manner, as similarly pronounced by Augustus and those of his race who frequent the mouth of the Copper-Mine River.
The tribe to which Augustus belongs resides generally a little to the northward of Churchill.