He attempted to persuade Augustus to remain with him and offered him one of his daughters for a wife.

These Esquimaux strike fire with two stones, catching the sparks in the down of the catkins of a willow.
The despatches being finished were delivered this evening to Mr.Wentzel, who parted from us at eight P.M.with Parent, Gagnier, Dumas, and Forcier, Canadians whom I discharged for the purpose of reducing our expenditure of provision as much as possible.

The remainder of the party including officers amounted to twenty persons.

I made Mr.Wentzel acquainted with the probable course of our future proceedings and mentioned to him that, if we were far distant from this river when the season or other circumstances rendered it necessary to put a stop to our advance, we should in all probability be unable to return to it and should have to travel across the barren grounds towards some established post, in which case I told him that we should certainly go first to Fort Enterprise, expecting that he would cause the Indians to place a supply of dried provision there, as soon as possible after their arrival in its vicinity.

My instructions to him were that he should proceed to Point Lake, transport the canoe that was left there to Fort Enterprise, where he was to embark the instruments and books and carry them to Slave Lake, and to forward the box containing the journals, etc., with the present despatches by the next winter packet to England.