Keith, George. An Account of Mackenzie River (Letters to Roderick Mackenzie), 1807-1817. An electronic transcription. MFTP #0033
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distressing scenes, which he unfortunately witnessed and experienced, disgusted him with the Grand River. He passes the winter this Year with Mr John Stuart at Rain Lake. There are scarcely any Hares in Mackenzie's River Department now a days, and upon this account we have much ado to make a sufficiency of provisions for the winter at those Posts when there is no fish. I paid a visit to Fort Chipweyan last summer in hopes of being indulged with a Passport to Lake L. Pluie the Ensuing Spring; but this agreeable expectation faded with the arrival of Mr John McGillivray from Fort William, who succeeds Mr D. McTavish in the Athabaska. We had poor returns all over the Country last Year. Mr. John Thomson winters in English River Dept. The unexpected hasty departure of the express obliges me to conclude with offer of my most sincere respects to Mrs Mackenzie and requesting you will excuse the conciseness of the Present from,
Dear Sir,
Your very obedient & oblidged Servant
George Keith
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