the Grand Portage neuf at the N.W. end of which we Passed the night with M^r Simon Fraser[.] Saturday 10^th[.] Passed the whole day at the Grand Portage neuf waiting our canoes that are behind. Sunday 11^th[.] It was noon when we left Grand Portage neuf passed the Martes, les Perchés and slept at the height of Land, where I was instituted a North man by Batême performed by sprinkling water in my face with a small cedar Bow dipped in a ditch of water and accepting certain conditions such as not to let any new hand pass by that road without experiencing the same ceremony which stipulates particularly never to kiss a voyageur's wife against her own free will the whole being accompanied by a dozen of Gun shots fired one after another in an Indian manner[.] The intention of this Bâtême being only to claim a glass. I complied with the custom and gave the men, between M^r Neil M^cKay and self a two gallon keg as my worthy Bourgeois M^r Cuthbert Grant directed me. We are now at the head of the waters that run into Lake Superior. Monday 12^th Aug^t[.] Steered off the height of land upon the waters running to the North West into Hudson's Bay. Passed the Epingle

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