CHAPTER II.
Passage up Hayes', Steel, and Hill Rivers--Cross Swampy Lake--Jack River--Knee Lake and Magnetic Islet--Trout River--Holy Lake--Weepinapannis River--Windy Lake--White-Fall Lake and River--Echemamis and Sea Rivers--Play-Green Lakes--Lake Winipeg--River Saskatchawan--Cross, Cedar, and Pine-Island Lakes--Cumberland House.
1819.

September.
On the 9th of September, our boat being completed, arrangements were made for our departure as soon as the tide should serve.

But, when the stores were brought down to the beach, it was found that the boat would not contain them all.

The whole, therefore, of the bacon, and part of the flour, rice, tobacco, and ammunition, were returned into the store.
The bacon was too bulky an article to be forwarded under any circumstances; but the Governor undertook to forward the rest next season.

In making the selection of articles to carry with us, I was guided by the judgment of Governor Williams, who assured me that tobacco, ammunition, and spirits, could be procured in the interior, otherwise I should have been very unwilling to have left these essential articles behind.