He admitted that his tribe had made war upon the Esquimaux, but said they were now desirous of peace, and unanimous in their opinion as to the necessity of all who accompanied us abstaining from every act of enmity against that nation.

He added, however, that the Esquimaux were very treacherous, and therefore recommended that we should advance towards them with caution.
The communications which the chief and the guides then gave respecting the route to the Copper-Mine River, and its course to the sea, coincided in every material point with the statements which were made by Boileau and Black-meat at Chipewyan, but they differed in their descriptions of the coast.

The information, however, collected from both sources was very vague and unsatisfactory.

None of his tribe had been more than three days' march along the sea-coast to the eastward of the river's mouth.
As the water was unusually high this season, the Indian guides recommended our going by a shorter route to the Copper-Mine River than that they had first proposed to Mr.Wentzel, and they assigned as a reason for the change, that the rein-deer would be sooner found upon this track.

They then drew a chart of the proposed route on the floor with charcoal, exhibiting a chain of twenty-five small lakes extending towards the north, about one half of them connected by a river which flows into Slave Lake, near Fort Providence.