The Express.
London, England, 1847-11-02 00:00:00

NARRATIVE OF THE ESCAPE OF MR.
MACKENZIE.

The Toronto GloieletTinbiisied an account of the
escape of the insurgent leader Mackenzie, after the value-
ensful attempt made by him in Dec., 1837. We give the
following abridgment
The circumstances which attended my successful effort to
escape from the neighbourhood of Toronto to Buffalo, in
December,lB37, through. thickly settled country,the people
of which were generally speaking lonrand well acquainted
with me, as will be seen by the following narrative, are truly
remarkable. I would hare published this narrative at the
time the events occurred had I not keen apprehensive that
its details might injure several very worthy individuals.
On the forenoon on which the party in opposition to
Governor Head were worsted, near Toronto, Thursday,
Dec. 7, 1837, a ball struck my worthy friend, Captain Wide-
man,in the head,killing him on the spot ; and a person nem
the city brought intelligence to Col. blunt, who stood
den by, that the two wings of the tories, armed with
several additional pieces of artillery, were hemming
us in, and had been ordered to cut elf our retreat. It
evidently appearing that success for the insurgents wet,
at that time, impossible, the colonel: and many others gave
way and crossed the field to the parallel line of read weetof
Yonge-street. Perceiving that we were not yet pursued, I
paned on to Yonge-street, and the first farmer I met, being
a friend, readily gave me his horse—a trusty sure-footed
creature, which that day did me good service. Although it
was known that we had been wonted no one interrupted us,

save in friendship. At the Golden Line, ten miles above the
city, I overtook Col. Anthony van Armond, • Dutch offiert,
of many years' ezperieuos under Nspoloos. He agreed with
me that we should at once make for the Niagara frontier,
but was taken almost immediately after by a party who had
fret out from Governor Head's camp, to pin the rewards
then offered there. Finding myself clearly pursued and re-
peatedly fired at, I left the high road with one friend (Mr. J.
R.), and made for Shepard'smills. The fleetest horsemen of
the official party were so close upon as that lhad only time
to jump off my horse and ask the miller (himself a tory)
whether a large body of men then on the heights
were friends or foes, before our pursuers were climb-
ing up the steep ascent almost beside me. When
I overtook Colonel Lount, he had, I think, about ninety
men with him, who were partly armed. We took some
refreshments at a friendly farmer's near by. Lount was for
diepersing. I proposed that we should keep in a body, and
make for tne United States, yid the head of Lake Ontario,
as our opponents had the steamers but only 16 persons went
with me. I had no other arms than a single-barrel pistol,
and we were all on foot. Some of my companions had no
weapons at all.
We made for the Humber-bridge. through Vaughan, but
found it strongly guarded—went up the river a long wily,
got some supper at the house of a farmer, crossed the stream
on • foot bridge, and by two next morning reached the hos-
pitable 131111114011 of • worthy settler in Dundasateet, utterly
exhausted with cold and fatigue. Blankets were hung over
the windows to avoid suspicion, food and beds prepared, and
while the tories were carefully searching for us we were
sleeping soundly. Next morning (Friday) those who had
arms buried them, and we agreed to separate and make fur
the frontier, two and two together. A lad in his 19th or
20th year accompanied me, and such was my confidence in
the honesty and friendship of the country folks, protestant
and catholic, European and American, that I went undio
guised and on foot, my only weapon at the time being Dug-
gan's pistol, and it not loaded. Address was now wanted
much more than brute force. We followed the concession,
parallel and next to the great western road, saw and talked
with numbers of people, but with none who wanted the
government reward. About three in the afternoon we
reached Comfort's mills, near Streetsville ; we were there
told that Col. Chisholm, and 200 of the hottest orangemen,
and other partisans, were divided into parties searching for
us.—Mr. Comfort harnessed up his waggon for our use, into
which my companion and I got, and • young Emeralder
drove us down the Streetaville-road, through the Credit vil-
lage(Springfield)in broad daylight, and along Dundas.street,
bills being then duly posted for my apprehension, and I not
yet out of the county. Yet, though known to everybody,
we proceeded a long way west before danger approached.
At length, however, we were hotly pursued by • party of
mounted troops ; our driver because alarmed, and with era-
son, and I took the reins and pushed onward at full speed
over a rough, hard-frozen road, without snow. Our pur-
suers nevertheless gained on us, and when near the Sixteen-
Mile Creek we ascertained that my countryman, Colonel
Chalmers, had • party guarding the bridge. The creek
swells up at times into • rapid river—it was now swollen by
the November rains. What was to be done ? Young W.
and I jumped from the. waggon, made toward the forest,
asked a labourer tee road to Esquesdng, to put our pursuer.
off our track, and we were soon in the thitlest of the patch of
woods near the deep ravine in which flows the creek named
and numbered arithmetically as the Sisteen. The men in
chase came up with our driver almost immediately after
we left, took him prisoner, seized his tram, gave the alarm
to all the tories and orangemen in that 1 art of Tea-
t (algae, and in an hour or thereabouts we were annoyed
by the reports of rifles and the barking of dogs near by the
place where we were hidden. Some who saw me at Com-
fort's mills went and told the armed tories of Streetrtille,
who instaetly went to the worthy man's house, where they ,
' insulted and threatened his intrepid end true-hearted wife,
proposed to make a bonfire of his premises, handcuffed and
chained bim, threw him into a waggon, and dragged him off
to Toronto gaol. He lay long in prison untried, and was
only released to find his excellent wife (who had been in the
family way) in her grave. There was but one chance of
scope, surrounded as we were, and that was to stem the
stream, and cross the swollen creek. We accordingly stripped
ourselves naked, and, with the surface ice beating against us,
andlholding our garments over our heads, in a bitter cold De.
cemeer night, buffetteci the current, we were:soon up to our
necks. I hit my foot against a stone, let fall tome of my clothes
(which my companion caught), and cried aloud with pain.
The cold in that stream caused me the most cruel and intense
sensation of pain I ever endured, but we got through, though
with a better chance for drowning, and the frozen sand on
the banks seemed warm to our feet when we once more
trod on it. In an hour and a half we were under the hos-
pitable roof of one of the innumerable agricultural friends I
could then count in the country. I found them ready to
risk life and property to aid me. The sons and daughters
of the Nelson farmer kept a talent watch outside, in the cold,
while I and my companion slept.
By Saturday morning we bad reached Wellington-square,
by the middle road. The farmers' dogs began to bark
loudly, the heavy tramp of a party of horsemen was heard
behind us—we retired a little way into the woods—eaw that
the men were armed—entered the road again—and half an
hour before twilight reached the door of an upright magis-
trate, which an English boy at one, opened t n us. I sent
up my name, was requested to walk up stairs (in the dark),
and told that the house, barns, and every part of the premins
had been twice searched for me that morning, and that
M'Nab'a men, from Hamilton, were scouring the country in
all directions, in the hope of taking me. I asked if I had
the least chance to pass downward by the way of Burlington
Beach, but was answered that both roads were guarded.
Believing it safest, we went behind oar friend's house to a
thicket. At dawn of day it began to snow and show foot-
marks, and I concluded to go to a form near by. Its owner
thought I would be quite safe in his bun, but I thought
not. A peas-rick, which the pigs had undermined
all round, stood on a high knoll, and I chose it for
a hiding-place. In due time Colonel M'Donnell, the
high sheriff, and his posse, stood before me. House,
barns, cellars, and garret were searched, and I the
while quietly looking on. When the coat seemed clear, my
terrified host, a wealthy Canadian, came up the hill as if to
feed his pigs, brought me two bottles of hot water for my
feet, a bottle of tea, and several slices of bread and butter;
told me that the neighbourhood was literally harassed with
bodies of armed men in search of me, and advised that I
should leave that place at dark. We went to the dwelling of
an old friend, to whom I stated that I thought I would now
make a more speedy, yet equally sure, progress on horseback.
Ile risked at once, and that too most willingly, not only his
horse, but also the knowledge it might convey that he had
aided me. I entered the village alone in the night and made
for the mountain country above Hamilton. I got a fresh
horse near Anteater, from an old comrade a noble
animal, who did me excellent service—pursued my jour-
ney in • concession parallel to the mountain road above
Hamilton, till I came near to a hoes* well Heisted up, and
where a guard was evidently posted to question wayfarer'
—and I, as it then seemed the safest course, pulled down
the worm fence, and tried to find my way through the Bin-
brook and Glanford Woods, a hard task in daylight, but far
worse in the dark. For several weary hours did I toil
through the primeval forest, leading my horse, and unable
to get out or find a path. The barking of a dog brought
me, when near daylight, to a solitary cottage, and its inha-
bitant, a negro, pointed out to me the Twenty-Mile Creek,
where it was fordable. I mounted my horse and rode off.
At some ten miles distance, a farm newly cleared, and situ-
ated in a by-place, seemed a safe havea. I entered the house,
called for breakfast, and found in the owner a stout Hiber-
nian farmer, an erangeman, from the north of Ireland, with
a wife and five fine curly-headed children. I took breakfast,
saw my horse watered, and fed with oats in the sheaf, and
then asked Mr. Waters to be so kind os to put me in the
way to the Mountain Road, opposite Stoney Creek, which
he agreed to do, but evidently with the utmost reluctance.
After we had travelled about a quarter of a mile in the
woods, he turned round at a right angle, and said that was
the way. " Not to the road," said I. " No, but to Mr.
M'lntyre, the magistrate," said he. Here we came to a full
stop. He was stout and burly; I, small and slight made.
I soon found that he had not even dreamed of me as a
rebel ; his leading idea was, that I had a habit of borrowing
other men's horses without their express leave—in other
words, that I was a horse-thief. Horses had been stolen,
and he only did his duty by carrying a doubtful case before
the nearest justice, whom I inferred to he one of M'Nab's
cronies, as he was a new man of whom I had never before
heard, though a freeholder of that district, and long and in-
timately acquainted with its affairs. This was a real puzzle.
Should I tell Waters who I was, it was ten to one but be
would seize me for the heavy reward, or out of mere party
zeal or prejudice, if I went before his neighbour, the new-
t:tads justice, he would doubtless know mid detain me on a
charge of high treason. leaked Mr. Waters to explain. He
said that I had come, in great haste, to his house, on • De-
cember Sunday morning, though it was on no publie road,
with my clothes torn, my face badly scratched, and my horse
all in a foam; that I had refused to say who I was, or where
I came from, had paid him a dollar for • very humble break-
fast, been in no haste to leave, and was riding one of the
finest horses in Canada, making at the same time for the
frontier by the most unfrequented paths, and that many
horses had been recently borrowed. My manner, he ad-
mitted, did not indicate anything wrong, but why did I stu-
diously conceal my name and business ? And if all was
right with me, what had I to fear from • visit to the !memo(
the nearest magistrate ? I held a parley with my detainer.
" I am an old magistrate," said '' but at present in •
situation of some difficulty. If I an satisfy you as to who I
am, and why I am here, would you desire to gain the price
of any man's blond ? " He seemed to shudder at the very
idea of such a thing. I then administered an oath to him,
and with more solemnity than I hod ever done the like when
acting judicially, he holding up hie right hand as we Irish
and Scottish presbyterians usually do. When he had ascer-
tained my name, he directed me how to get into the main
road, and feelingly urged me to accept his personal guidance
to the frontier. I perceived an armed party when a third of
mile off. I turned short towards St. Catherine's, when I
got to Sinithville, and seemed to have taken that road down
hill at full speed. Instead of doing so, however, I turned a
corner, put my horse very gaickly in the stable of a friendly
Canadian, Samuel Chamber, whose sire was a United Em-
pire Royalist, entered his hospitable abode, ho being still
at church, beheld my pursuers interrogate a woman who had
seen me pass, and then ride furiously onward by the St.
Catherine's road, and then went quietly to bed, and rested
for some four hours, had a comfortable supper with the family
and what clothes I required. A trusty companion was also
ready to mount his hone, and accompany me the last forty
miles, to Buffalo, should that attempt prove practicable.
About eight o'clock on Sunday night Chandler and I left
Smithville. We turned our heroes' heads toward Buffalo,
crossed the Twenty, ventured to take a comfortable supper
with a friend, whose house was on our way, crossed the
Welland canal and the Chippewa river, steering clear of the
officials in arms in them) parts, and got safe into Crowlasid
before daylight. We soon awoke Mr. C—, left our horses
in his pasture, and he immediately accompanied us on ova
way to the Niagara river on foot. On inquiry, he found
that all the boats ma the river (tempt thin* at the ferries,

which were well guarded) had been seised and taken cu.
t.
by the officers of government. Thare was but one exeepeist.
Capt.,bi'Afee, of Bettie, who resided on the banks of sly
Niagara, opposite the head of Grand Island, was believed's
have kept one of his boats locked up beside his carriages /
hesitated not a moment in advising Mr. to nuy sa.
difficulty I wee in to him, in cue he had a boat, for, altb
he had had no knowledge of, or belief and participation,
the outbreak, yet he was well known to be a strictly ?tat
man, benevolent, not covetous, a member of the Me •
Episcopal Church, very religious, and in all be said or did
very sincere. It was about amine on Monday morning wk.*
I reached his farm ; an excellent breakfut had been pre.
pared for ua, and I was much fatigued and also hung',
But there wan a military patrol on the river, and balm;
sitting down to a repast I thought it safe to step out sad ay
it the coast was clear. Well for me it was that I did so. oid
Col. Kerby, the custom-house officer, opposite Black
and his troop of mounted dragoons, in their green undoes',
and with their carbines ready, were so close upon us, view',
up by the bank of the ricer, that had I not then °bum,"
their approach, they would have caught me at breakfast
Nine men out of ten, in such en emergency, would have
hesitated to assist me, and to escape by land wan, at dist
time, evidently impossible. Mr. M'Afee lon not a abaft
—his boat was hauled across the road and launched lash
stream with all possible speed—and he, and Chandler, rdg
were scarcely afloat in it, and out a little way, below sha
bank, when the old Tory colonel, and his green-coated
of horse, with their waving plumes, were parading in hut
of his (Mr. M'Afee.) dwelling.—This narrative is sigan
and dated New York, Sept. 15.

SUCCESSFUL RESULT OF THE HUDSOVB
BAY COMPANY'S ARCTIC EXPEDITION.
It is known that in July, 1846, the Hudson's Say
Company dispatched an expedition of 13 person, front Post
Churchill, in Hudson's Bay, under the command of Dr.
John R ie, for the purpose of surveying the unexplored pot_
tion of the Arctic coast at the north-eastern nngle of tit.
American continent. This expedition has now retureag.
after having traced the coast all the way from the Led
Mayor's Bay of Sir John Ross to within • few mile; of ths
Straits of the Fury and the Hecla—thus proving Sir lobs
Ross to have been correct in stating Boothia Felix to boa
peninsula. The details will be found in the following kb.
stract of a report just received by the Hudson's Day Casa
patsy :
The expedition under my charge left Churchill on the sth of Jely.
1816, fur the purpose of tracing the cwt of America between Dam
and Simpson's furthest, and the Strait of the Fury and Ueda, a ~,
turned in safety to this :dame* the Gth inst., after busing, by travel,
ling over the ice arid snow in the spring, surveyed the east from tai
Lord Mayor's Ray of Sir John Rom to within eight or ten miles er
the Fury and Mesta Strait; thus proving that eminent navigator was
correct in stating Boothia Felix to be a portion of the American coo.
Uncut. After leaving Churchill the crews of the boats were di.
Yid.' into watches, so that we continued under rail day
and night wbenever the weather was aufflciently moderate,
On the 23d we made the traverse from the south to the north aide at
the entrance of the Vfm, r River with some difficulty, and koldiage
oar course towards Fteouine Bay, about wren p.m.. on the 2 as
rounded Cape Hope, and sailed up during the night to wallet deg
mike of the head of the bay, where he cast anchor for a few km;
under shelter of a small island near its south More. At three pm.
on the 25th, we entered Gams'. Cove. From a chart drawa by mg
of the party, I Inferred that the Arctic Sea ;named Akkodee), ta em
west of Melville peninsula, was not More than 10 Tulin MANS,.
• NNW. diiection, and that about 95 mites of the distaste eau
occupied by deep Likes so that we would have only five Wand
land to drag our boat over, a mode of proceeding white I hid
decided upon, even had the distance been much greater, le
pref fence to going round by the Fury and Ilecla Strait.
unloaded the boats, and paced one of them. with the greater=
the cargo, in security, tee other was hauled three miles up a rigid
and narrow river, which flowed from one of the lakes we ware tepee
through. This work occupied us the whole of the 26th, as %Um.
rent was very strong. and the channel so full of large Molder stunts
that the men were frequently up to the want in ice-cold) water wklht
lifting or launching the boat over these impediments. On the 27th,
we reached the lake, which was ail mile+ long, and varied from half
a mile to 2Ou yards in breadth, its depth being in some plaew upwards
of 30 fathom.. After traveralng several lakes, and cnia.ing over de
"on the Ist of Aiming we entered a shallow Arms flow.
rig' E4northward. Following tbia, w arrived at the ars at
p.m., ia Lat. 0d.13m. eus. north ; longituede, by account, b:d. Mee
west
Early on the morning of the tad we carried the baggage a Mils
further down the stream, and afterwards, with much trouble, draned
oar boat over some shoals. We were now 'dud in s salt water aba
of • few maw in width. and we steered towards the only appareat
opening, bearing north. After tracing the More for 11 miles en
passed a steep rocky point, which wan named Point Hargrave. At
11, a. a., on the 3rd, we rounded a high bear cape, which was cad
after the Indy of Si, John Henry Petty, Bart., governor of tee Hod.
eon's Bev Company. It is situated in latitude 67d. 28. 00s. north;
longitude, by account, 87d. 40m. weet. With much eaertian we
advanced three milea beyond the cape, when are were enchant
by the lee, no that we could neither advance nor retre.
The shore still kept its north-wait trending, and presented
a succession of low muddy points and alternate bars. There
was a fresh breeze off shore on the sth, which had but little
effect upon the ice. I therefore determined on returning, and if pm.
Bible, creasing over to Melville Peninsula for the purpow of awing
its shores to the Fury and Hecla Strait- By chopping off some ywas
of ice, and pushing witic other., after much exertion we succeeded in
getting our boat mime ice somewhat lea slowly pecked. Duringom
detention the weather had been so foggy that no observations of any
value could be obtained; our clothes were all the time either quite
wet or damp, our fuel was nearly expended, and we had much dill-
malty In finding water that was drinkable. Working our way among
the ice until a mile or two put Pant Ilargrare, there now appeared
to be sufficient open water to allow us to crow over to Melville eels.
rut., the waren point of which tore N.E. (true) distant ten
miles. We completed the traverse in flee bourn, amid.: torrents
of rain, accommnied by thunder and lightning, the win I having
shifted from south-west to cast. Haring secured the Lot to the
rodti the men, although drenched to the skin, went Immediately to
sleep in their wet clothe,, 18 hours hard work at the oars and lea
poles baring thoroughly tired them all. There was a thick fog. with
rain all the night of the 6th, but about 6 o'clock on the monolog of
the 7th a hash breeze from S.E. dimmed the mist. A. won as the
weather clawed up we started, but our progress wa+ very slew ' • in
four hours we gained as many miles, and were again stopped byorar
constant enemy. Early on the Bth it became calm, and PO plight
bad been the effect of the late gale, that the Me had nearly
surrounded us before we got our anchor up. Tee boat could
not be placed In eafetv here; I therefore decided on running
back to our starting Point, and there await some favourable
change. A eight ',there aided our retreat, but the ice followed awe in
our rear, and before we had been hall an hour under akeltiv retry
spot of open water was filled up. I prepared to walk acroes to at.
pulse Bay, to learn how the men left there were getting forward with
the arrangements for wintering. Leering three men In chore of the
boat, I started on the 9th, in company with tee other three, and
reached our destination on the following day, at two p.m. After OF
turn consideration, ! determined on giving up all hopes of Pr7tl the surrey at present. On the I I th, reteLniug one man with ri,4l
to guard our store* and attend the nets, the remaining six were pent
to assist in bringing over the boat. They returned on the 15th, baring
been only two days crossing. Two Esquimaux had accompanied time
to waist, and elm to act as guides; three of the " ponams" were
thus avoided, and the party had likewise the advantage of a fine fair
breeze in the lakes. The Esquimau, bad wrought well, and were
liberally rewarded. One of them, a merry little fellow, named Iva-
Chuk (.4n lice Seahorse) was engaged to accompany me on my is.
spring journeys Over the mow and ice. All hands were my
busily occupied In making timparations fur a long and cold winter.
To build a house was: our first object, and, there being no wood,
stones were collected at a favourable mot, in a hollow on the month
aide of the river, a quarter of • mile from the re. On the 2d of Sep.
timber our house Was furnished. Its internal dimension+ were 20
feet bog by 14 feet brad; height In front 7S feet, sloping to 51 at the
back. The roof was formed of oilcloth,: and morns skin coverings, the
mats mad oars of our boats serving as rafters. The door wan made of
perthmest deerskin* stretched over a frame of wood. It was named
Fort Hope, and it was eituated in latitude 66d. 31.,. lee north, lois-
pitinle (by a number of seta of lunar distances) 56d. 55.515. west
The variation of the campus on the 30th of August. IBg, was
62d. 50.305. west; dip of the needle. Aid. 14m.: and the mean
time of 100 vertical vibration, in the line of declination, 2165. The
winter was extremely etormy, Indeed so much so that frequently we
could not move fifty yards from the house for several days together.
Towards the end of February preparadons for our spring Journeys
were commenced. I bad intended setting out on my journey owe
tee land ad ice on the Ist of April, but an accident that hawed
to Ouligbuck detained me until tee sth, on which day I left Fat
Hope. In company with three men, the Erquonam, Ibit-chuk, and
Ouglibucka son, as interpreter. Our bedding and provisions wee
placed on two sledge', each drawn by four dog.; for two days oar
route was the some as that by bast through the lakes last autumn.
On the 7th, when two miles from the sea, we struck acres
land to the weetweel, and built our snow house on a snag
lake four miles from Point Hargrare. This being the hart teeth wear
lake we were likely to see far some days our sled-reopen were rot
iced. A deco, breeze of head wind, with thick snow drift, impeded
our mamma aOa Bth, but we neverthelem advanced sewn mike
beyond Ow lady Telly before eseamping. The 9th proved Moe, and
the imams Ins rough than that pawed over the previous day, bat nor
dogs barb &ft, and one of them haring become quite welms gm that.
About on the 10th we arrived opposite • rounded pant/whisk
was mama lSspe Wey-nton. Our weave now lay acmes a bay Worn
els mambo NMI tall wide, which received the name of Colrile, is
berm of the depatyisorereos of the compeny. The north pound
the bay, alike we reached the following forenoon, was
ailed brankft, after the learned and scientific hydroffnOW
to the Admiralty. Our next encampment was in Keithly,
minuted la he. bd. 17m. OM- N., long Md. 22m. 00s. W. The awn
hereto* adore turn to the eastward, and our Esquimau. ca.
psalm bibbed me, that by creasing overland, in Dorte-west direc-
tion, to • bop bay which he had formerly visited, we should shatem
our deems, gonaiderably. I fiscided on adopting tee *wee=
and left the beat on the bereft of the 12th. On the
was very obeirny, with a beistatare of 20d. below zero, We wired
at the dap mad bob dye boy woken of by our Snide, alla old
by him Altaloa4l-guArlak. Yea imps Were now nearly
determined ea baring then hems 1510 ems of the partT,Al_.
the Regaterar. be the riffl••• releVitilig I=l. Tie,
pomade, lo kit Nab, slash wen amereas; abbe i, Sae _
me; proeseded to tease tbe eseseador of lees eseeibered *NIL 10,
15th was so stoney the we eels she Mewl On wee tbe bre
but early In the ',nonsked** Ibla oft at la ss alb Mel
the men, for the purpose of Ikesedeg the met es sane pit ow
'eyed by far John Rote, as I seer Ytaatlmt Sot that same Br
coverer IFISIMITIKa I. Ma *ohs • Be Deeehla Fella being part dale
Aeeetes eastimit We dlrselal air Nam he the earthen r
bad, whisk We
17 miles Mote: The sseattier was beaotifel Welk
and th° Ids Wed . • bide molt et broogla at lbs
point tOialltel seusi we bra yeseeediag, in time le a •
meridian obieraitles der eft. Omo BMW In situated in Wade
69d. 4m. lea north, ad Iseelbals SI, See. were It is formal ea
tirety of 'matte, partially email alt mom Thirteen miles bspeel
Oats we arrived at two sinew pekes Is the small bay. The SIM
still trended to the NW., and we bed ant handled more Umber
lament's on the 180, when the omit took • sharp tun le the alb
ward. We had been tracing the west ids of • deep inlet, whisk via
name' flalkett, after ono at the ambeas of your hon. board.
An we were now ear the Isis & awl loneitude of Lad
Bay of Sir John Paw I Mask alma lead newly in a NV=
don. sad at say wigs wig war • moldoroblo ake, the WHIM
694116. IN mem. I ass. rash vas observed Affssineing three albs lie
yowl Ildelrealallel arbor Paha, sed, as there was al pla 1►
peraire edam, I adored by otoopokoot to build • swim MI
aad alma lir bal slit I welt le bat be the root. A waa
Wastes bought me lan aa We met mere than • ottartilt d a mac
wide. This I trued to the westward kr three silks, who Sr
looms weespla oburnetsd by bad. bone high rein
from whites good view could be abides; I I could
I third& 116,11 lee In the baked .teach. ith
I hopes I eat eat st • pond 55,
deeP.e
saramhisig war melts and be, witil 1
same ebbe Mow to be beak. the seat
now abed, as ler as the eye sm sea le tie seeth.deeriamisl:
lame sent I
Wanda Ladof
Rey'ise-oover serlded vllk inn
Na/px'a west rae. sad the bbilie
were Ohre masa by Mr Ma law, the Om of the of be
trashSeelbed. Whims which oemesile re lbe
easelnesed vela Desilds Pall; le on', one Tube beeed, rd. br=
by the warm steers wt. are up on It, mum le be •
resod atlas Nethimi. Its latitude I. cod. Sta. =lda besdeleft a
assoond Old. Ida Ma west. With • gralski bort Islam des
thoo bedsit serjeteesy so far to a aresedel 1•1111•Iftes,
to Mamie aq NW towards my essaysthess. ail at • nee WM
remised Ile mow mensal sew ows—le
cynic' • yluisat aleht's reel after the Ibilgoes d ale
da. Os dee dellyebd
tai
takrtzeleall• dr Or
allroverlaa OM we p es oar Mom
lamb& I • Platte. „mai...L....me route es WO br Alb
vs biedeimed to eat arrived et Reptiles PIA
to dee Mk of Slay, all=viik betas Week se menses, 1.11.
eambleed et tam bliss sad eft awls. At rear waiter quarters
everything had me a issedosseeby. Mooing still he Ina the wog

graben* started for this patpase an thevening
dare of
nb. 13th of May, Odes:ling to travel brtit. with • Chosen party
ctiog men. Our coon* to the ass was seen; doe north, thronb a
pia of I,keN and on the 16th we built ear snow hut on Pipe
sw,ison, in lat. G7d. 19m. 14s. north, Meg. 87d. Oat
rocky point which I had visited bat autumn in
week a
boai. From this place I gent beck • fatigue party of
td
noes and • of
or don that had assisted ns thus far.
r. 71., dojo were of little use during the lost journey, I took
We left our mow but on the evening of the 16th,
ra siN env pow.
dvineed only If miles the first night. On the 17th we crowed •
M 7 Is vies wide, end encamped at its math point, obloceite to which,
▪ rimin two miles of the shore, there le • large Wand, which was
...seed with the name of hi. Royal Wexner the Pismo of Wales.
Toth stand to the south of this was rafted &bine bland. The
„ohne of the coast was now NNE.; near the shore the
Mery htIOI high and steep. On the 30th we were detained 24 bourn
oogy weather at Cape Led; Simpeen, a long point in latitude
rd, tho. north, longitude 65d. 23m. west We rounded Selkirk bay
weed after the noble earl of that name) on the Mat and after paesiog
;aerobe of small point. and hap we encamped on what at first ep.
to be a pert of the main land, but which was afterward. found
;is sa ielad. Our snow homeon the 25th was Wilt in lad. Md. that
▪ bresitude 65d. 4m. west, taw • small stream, (ruses (like all
ethers we had proned) to the tottora. Leaving two men to endeavour
▪ bh std shoot, I went forward with the others and monad Barry
sins
p...ung 'mode a number of islet. Our thane on the following
ley to the westward of north, the coast being high and rocky,
0,,,045i with numerous mitts. After aceompliehing 20 mile. in
&eight hoe we entrapped. Our prorisions being nearly exhausted,
jia•hi Hoard only half a dare journey further northward, being
gird to re•urn the same night to our prevent quarters. Lensing
ear of the mitt, I set out with the other. The wow fell fast, and
the ...wag was extremely fatiguing. After advancbg 10
ode. the land turned sharp to the eastward, but as the
sender was thick I could not see how tar it trended in thin
dy1‘,0,30. When we had waited here nearly an hour,
. the sky
dta,edup, and I &covered that we were on the south shore of a
soniamble boy, and scull trace the coast to the northwards for
stoat It mules bread it. To the most distant visible point (at. 614 d.
4y meth, long Old. dm. west) limn the =mot Cape Mee ; the
bad ~tiese • e :cod was called Cape Crosier. and the internming
bay mond the same of Parry Hay. Finding it hopeless to attempt
maing the strait of the Fury and Heels, from which Cape Ellice
scald oily be a few mite disant, we retraced our steps, and alter en
sbence ot II bourspined our companion,who had built • Ismw hove.
sad woo on our arrival very busy attempring to masa little wet moss
into malsent dame to boil some chow/ate, Mato no purpose; we were
erosegarstil 0, weed to finish the pieces. with alcohol, a small quail.
tity of Mu Li still remained. Early on the morning of the 30th we
wind at our mow but of the 25th. The men we bad left here were
▪ hot eary thin, as they had neither might nor shot anything
meet two marmots. Had we been absent 12 hours more
6,7 were to have rooked a piens of parchment skin for supper.
Nothing of &resin& occurred darns; ouriourney homeward. Our
of provisions were found safe, and some partridges
no▪ t
were that aidoll our theft commons. At 8.20 on the morning of
&gib of J bar we arrived at Fort Hope, all well, having been absent
rpmea.
ing the remainder of our stay at Repulse Bay the whole party
sin occupied in procuring food, col acting fuel, and preparing our
bow for sea. The be in the toy broke up on the 11 to of August-
0. the following day, after. bidding farewell to our good-humoured
hoots ,wed were loud in their wishes that we would soon return to
too, we left our dre.try winter quarters. Head winder and stormy
setter retisted our progress much, so that we rid not Mid]
thaftlol until the 31st of August. We were detained in Churchill
"Mr b, s gale of wind until the 3rd of September, when the weather
beam mote moderate, and we were able to mousse our voyage to-
ward. York Factory, at which place we arrived late on the evening of
ha fah—J. hat —York Factory, Hudson'. Bay, &pt. 21, 1647.