MacDonell, John. Description of Lake Athabasca and the Chipweans, ca. 1805 and Journal of a Voyage from Lachine to Fort River Qu'Appelle, 1793. An electronic transcription. MFTP #0005
her arrival beyond that period I am at a loss to think what shift the gentlemen would adapt to subsist their servants[.]
August the 1st[.] Mrss Robert Grant, Peter Pangman, Alex. McLeod and Wm Thorburn set out in two Large Canoes for Montreal[.] [T]hese Gentlemen are universally regretted; the two former retire from the concern with handsome competancies and the two latter merily to recruit their health, injured through bad fare and fatigues in the interior[.]
Augt 2nd[.] Old Bayil Ireland the guide arrived with two Montreal canoes and brings the agreeable news of the Otter lying off Pointe au Père[.] Early next morning a Boat well manned was sent to tow her up into port, and to their surprise spied her behind the point a la Framboise after passing before the fort in the Night with a North West wind[.] It was ten O'clock before she anchored at the warffe having entered partly by sailing and partly by towing.
Monday 5th Agut[.] I left the lake Superior and walked over the Grand Ptage to Fort Charlotte accomped by Mrss Cuthbert Grant and John Bennet the sailing master of the Otter. The Ptage is full of hills is divided by the voyageurs
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