Geese appear at Cumberland House in latitude 54 degrees usually about the 12th of April; at Fort Chipewyan in latitude 59 degrees on the 25th of April; at Slave Lake in latitude 61 degrees on the 1st of May; and at Fort Enterprise in latitude 64 degrees 28 minutes on the 12th or 14th of the same month.
On the 16th a minor chief amongst the Copper Indians attended by his son arrived from Fort Providence to consult Dr.Richardson.He was affected with snow-blindness which was soon relieved by the dropping of a little laudanum into his eyes twice a day.

Most of our own men had been lately troubled with this complaint but it always yielded in twenty or thirty hours to the same remedy.
On the 21st all our men returned from the Indians and Akaitcho was on his way to the fort.

In the afternoon two of his young men arrived to announce his visit and to request that he might be received with a salute and other marks of respect that he had been accustomed to on visiting Fort Providence in the spring.

I complied with his desire although I regretted the expenditure of ammunition and sent the young man away with the customary present of powder to enable him to return the salute, some tobacco, vermilion to paint their faces, a comb and a looking-glass.
At eleven Akaitcho arrived; at the first notice of his appearance the flag was hoisted at the fort and upon his nearer approach a number of muskets were fired by a party of our people and returned by his young men.

Akaitcho, preceded by his standard-bearer, led the party and advanced with a slow and stately step to the door where Mr.Wentzel and I received him.