They were to wait our arrival at Fort Providence, on the north side of the Slave Lake.

Their information coincided with that given by Beaulieu.

They had no doubt of our being able to obtain the means of subsistence in travelling to the coast.

This agreeable intelligence had a happy effect upon the Canadian voyagers, many of their fears being removed: several of them seemed now disposed to volunteer; and indeed, on the same evening, two men from the North-West Company offered themselves and were accepted.
_June 5_ .-- This day Mr.Back and I went over to Fort Wedderburne, to see Mr.Robertson respecting his quota of men.

We learned from him that, notwithstanding his endeavours to persuade them, his most experienced voyagers still declined engaging without very exorbitant wages.