and the wind violent of the Lake[.] The Huson's Bay Party is here with us[.]

Wednesday the 4^th[.] Started after sunrise, made the traverse to the entrance of the red River Shreight[.] The men call it six leagues, entered the long wished for Red River[.] It is only reckoned 18 Leagues from the mouth of the River winipie to the mouth of the Red River; that is, six from the latter to the Grand Marais, six from the Grand Marais to Fall a la Biche and six from the latter place to the entrance of River Winipie.

The Red River enters Lake Winipie by a variety of channels seperated from one another by low Islands full of Rushes and Reeds, one only of which produces a few conspicuous trees for land mark[.] A sand bank stretches from the shore for two miles opposite to their channels[.] Got provisions of fish from all the Indians we saw at the mouth of the River of which we are in great want having left the Grand Portage with only 3 Sacks corn to a canoe which were out at bas de la Riviere and they have had nothing since but half a sac of flour per canoe and

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