one to each Boat excepting what little provisions we got from the Indians; but the Red River abounding in fish the industrious at that employ caught a sufficient number to relieve their hunger[.] The Trading with the Indians prevented our proceeding farthur than Six leagues into the River this day and put up for the night at old seite of M^r Jos. Frobishers Fort, the first he ever entered at in the interior of the North West. This place is now over grown with brush so as to be known except from the traditions of the antients[.] The Rivier aux morts is about half way between this siete and the lake[.] [A] league from the Lake you have the whole Red River together which is here a ¼ to ½ mile wide[.] Tuesday Thursday 5^th September[.] Overtook D. M^cKay and his Hudson's Bay Party in the Rapid of sault a la Biche (they having passed us while trading withe the savages in the entry of the Red River) about noon. Here I broke my canoe, being the eighth stone, in so as to be hauled up in this Rapid[.] Slept at the head of the sault a la Biche which is nasty and shallow and

called

[94]