This party was quickly in motion after our arrival, and we were soon surrounded by a fleet of seventeen Indian canoes.

In company with them we paddled up the river, which is one hundred and fifty yards wide, and, in an hour, came to a cascade of five feet, where we were compelled to make a portage of one hundred and fifty-eight yards.

We next crossed a dilatation of the river, about six miles in length, upon which the name of Lake Prosperous was bestowed.

Its shores, though scantily supplied with wood, are very picturesque.
Akaitcho caused himself to be paddled by his slave, a young man, of the Dog-Rib nation, whom he had taken by force from his friends; when he thought himself, however, out of reach of our observation, he laid aside a good deal of his state, and assisted in the labour; and after a few days further acquaintance with us, he did not hesitate to paddle in our presence, or even carry his canoe on the portages.

Several of the canoes were managed by women, who proved to be noisy companions, for they quarrelled frequently, and the weakest was generally profuse in her lamentations, which were not at all diminished, when the husband attempted to settle the difference by a few blows with his paddle.
An observation, near the centre of the lake, gave 114 deg.