Having found here some articles which Mr.Back had sent across from Moose-Deer Island I determined on awaiting the arrival of Akaitcho and his party in order to present these to them and to assure them of the promised reward as soon as it could possibly be procured.
In the afternoon of the 14th Akaitcho with his whole band came to the fort.

He smoked his customary pipe and made an address to Mr.Weeks in the hall previous to his coming into the room in which Dr.Richardson and I were.

We discovered at the commencement of his speech to us that he had been informed that our expected supplies had not come.

He spoke of this circumstance as a disappointment indeed sufficiently severe to himself, to whom his band looked up for the protection of their interests, but without attaching any blame to us.

"The world goes badly," he said "all are poor; you are poor, the traders appear to be poor, I and my party are poor likewise, and since the goods have not come in we cannot have them.
I do not regret having supplied you with provisions for a Copper Indian can never permit white men to suffer from want of food on his lands without flying to their aid.