He made seven or eight voyages up the river for that purpose, while we at the Fort were busy in baling the beaver-skins and other furs, in suitable packs for horses to carry.

Mr.Reed, in the meantime, was sent on to the mountain-passes where Mr.Miller had been left with the trappers, to winter, there, and to procure as many horses as he could from the natives for our use in the contemplated journey.

He was furnished for this expedition with three Canadians, and a half-breed hunter named _Daion_, the latter accompanied by his wife and two children.

This man came from the lower Missouri with Mr.Hunt in 1811-'12.
Our object being to provide ourselves, before quitting the country, with the food and horses necessary for the journey; in order to avoid all opposition on the part of the Northwest Company, we entered into an arrangement with Mr.M'Tavish.

This gentleman having represented to us that he was destitute of the necessary goods to procure wherewith to subsist his party on their way homeward, we supplied him from our warehouse, payment to be made us in the ensuing spring, either in furs or in bills of exchange on their house in Canada..