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goods, axes and clothing, for their meat and moose skins. Plenty of good dried meat can be obtained here for the other stations of the Company: dried in the fall when the meat is fat and good, and moose skins sufficient to supply clothing for the men working in that part of the country. These are the best Indians I have seen: They promised to hunt and save the fall meat of this year for us. They are much dissatisfied with the English having to take their meat 300 miles and then get nothing but powder and balls for it And sometimes not even that, they sometimes go up the River to trade with the chillcats.

One hundred miles further up is another band of Indians also well disposed and ready to supply us with moose skins and meat

Near them the Stewart river a very large stream enters the Youkon. A few miles abpve the White river come in. These two are the only rivers of sufficient size to be worthy of any notice, a larger tribe the Kutchanta