after a course of an hundred computed Leagues from Lac des Bois[.] This fort is chiefly dependant upon fish taken in its environs for subsistance except when the provisions from the Red River are deposited here[.] The remains of the Biscuit we brought from the Grand Portage has been so bruised in the carrying places the we find it now most convenient to eat it with a spoon[.] 31^st Aug^t[.] D. McK. alias Mackay le malin passed with his three Boats and two Canoes – attended our ladings giveing the canoes 21 P^s and the Boats, three in number 23 P^s each, of the largest and most clumsy such as cases of guns, Iron, knives, hats, with cassettes and sacks flour[.]

Sunday Sept. 1^st[.] Left le Sieurs Fort, a head wind prevented our reaching the Isle a la Biche till about ten P.M[.] 2^nd[.] [M]ade a large Bay called la Baie du Portage at sunset when the wind fell[.] Thursday 3^rd[.] [M]ade the Grand marais where we were stoped by the same wind that kept us back since we entered the lake at this last campment had to shift some of the bagages, six times during night the shore being flat and

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