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and M^r Campbell who were left just embarked for Jack River on the 232^d of June. M^r Frobisher's before mentioned mutilated journal continues as follows "June 23^d marched* the whole day and did not encamp until dark, I was guarded in the canoe by one Miles with loaded pistols, 24 hours without eating, the brigade consisted of seven canoes, each of us in separate canoes, say five men, and Paul the guide. June 24^th. We arrived at their fort Pike River" (Jack River) "early in the morning, when, after remaining some hours time on the beach, we were shut up with our men in a small room, say eight of us. We embarked after a few hours detention and were ordered to proceed to … Fort … these … we … … June 25^th A chasm here is supplied from M^r Campbell's narrative who says "we were here told that Williams had sent orders to the person in charge to have us sent down to York Factory; this we protested against, and demanded to be sent by way of Fort William, that being the shortest route; but they would not, or, as they said, could not, act contrary to the orders of Williams, and that it would make no material difference" (the sequel shewed otherwise) "as we should not be detained any time at York Factory, there being always a schooner in readiness which constantly

*To march is the Canadian term for travelling, and is as frequently, if not oftener, applied to express the progress of a canoe or boat, as of a pedestrian[.]

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