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of industry and conduct on the part of the Natives, the traffic or produce of the Fur Trade carried on here, might defray the expenses attending it; and certainly calculated at the same time to confer inestimable advantages on a set of Beings the most miserable the imagination can conceive, but of which they appear little sensible. The youthful stripling might be as active and successfull as the man of riper years in the pursuit of these small animals. It is painful to relate, However, that notwithstanding every possible encouragement held out to the natives by the Company hitherto all our endeavours have proved but very unsuccessful and it remains in the Womb of time to determine whether a continuation of such generous policy sometime longer, combining with the most powerful motives on the part of the natives, will arouse their insensibility and make them

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