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CHAPTER XVI.
Wintry return to Fort Confidence.—Passage of Great Bear Lake, and ascent of the Mackenzie.—Arrival at Fort Simpson, and journey on the snow from thence to Red River.
Ascending to the Bloody Fall on the evening of the 16th of September, the first thing we saw was a long pole, to which was attached the pair of boots promised by the "Dancer," as we called him, to Mr. Dease in June. Though he and all his friends had already taken their departure, the Dancer will be no loser by this extraordinary trait of good-faith. At the Bloody Fall we left one of our sweet little craft, the sails, masts, ironworks, some dressed leather, skins, old nets, and oilcloths, besides the surplus of our pemican,[1] which, from age and long exposure to sea-damp,
- ↑ Total consumption on this voyage:
15 ½ bags of pemican. 4 ½ ditto of flour. 1 ditto of grease. 21 pieces, or 6 per month.
