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weakly manned, and added three Yellow Knife Indians who wished to go to their lands. [[double underline]] The only thing wanted was an Esquimaux interpriter. [[/double underline]] 
" Late on the evening of the 22nd of June the Expedition made a move to an Island about a mile from the Fort. Heavy gales from the north-east detained us between there and Rocky Point, where the traverse is taken till the 27th; these however,cleaned our road of ice. On the 28th we encamped at the upper end of 
[[underline]] Tal-thel-leh [[/underline]] Strait, we then fell in with the ice, it was about two feet thick. We were Employed
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till the morning of the 2nd of July in making our way through it, by cutting, pushing the pieces apart, and making portages over the points of land, young ice formed every night, and the further we advanced the sounder it got; the canoes too, unavoidably, received some injury. 
"At that date we had reached the place called [[double underline]] "The Mountain" [[/double underline]] in Back's Map, and mentioned in his narrative, as being a route to the barren grounds, but only practicable for small Indian canoes. The guide engaged by Mr Stewart was unacquainted with this route; he proposed taking us by