for the space of ten leagues[.] We made by the mens comput twenty four leagues this day[.] [N]ext day we passed Tête a la loutre where it is said a collumn of Rock stands upon a lofty round mountain to the height of ten to Twelve feet perpendicular[.] Twelve to fifteen leagues further on we found the entrance of the Pic River where there is a Trading Post belonging to M^r Coté and associates situated within half a mile of our encampment[.] This was the coldest night ever I felt at this time year, and in the vicinity of our encampment there are eleven Crosses in memory of that number men that are buried here most of whom perished last winter by various casualties.

We keep our arms in good order ever since we parted from the canoes being told the Indians are apt to attack a single canoe. The crews of the canoes have seldom any arms of their own[.] At l'Anse a la Bouteille met a canoe of Forsyth Richardson & C^os, that had wintered in Nipigon alongside of the H. B. Company's Traders, who did not make a single pack, for M^r Hudson their cheif, had been frozen to death that in winter seeking subsistance for himself

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