This supply was soon exhausted and we passed the 27th without eating, with the prospect of fasting a day or two longer, when old Keskarrah entered with the unexpected intelligence of having killed a deer.

It was divided betwixt our own family and the Indians and during the night a seasonable supply arrived from Akaitcho.

Augustus returned with the men who brought it, much pleased with the attention he had received from the Indians during his visit to Akaitcho.
Next day Mr.Wentzel set out with every man that we could spare from the fort for the purpose of bringing meat from the Indians as fast as it could be procured.

Dr.Richardson followed them two days afterwards to collect specimens of the rocks in that part of the country.

On the same day the two Belangers arrived from Fort Providence having been only five days on the march from thence.
The highest temperature in April was plus 40 degrees, the lowest minus 32 degrees, the mean plus 4.6 degrees.