Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819-20-21-22, Volume 1

This day we set out from Cumberland House for Carlton House; but previously to detailing the events of the journey, it may be proper to describe the necessary equipments of a wi...

Departure from Chipewyan--Difficulties of the various Navigations of the Rivers and Lakes, and of the Portages--Slave Lake and Fort Providence--Scarcity of Provisions, and disco...

From the departure of Messrs. Franklin and Back, on the 19th of January, for Chipewyan, until the opening of the navigation in the spring, the occurrences connected with the Exp...

Passage up Hayes', Steel, and Hill Rivers--Cross Swampy Lake--Jack River--Knee Lake and Magnetic Islet--Trout River--Holy Lake--Weepinapannis River--Windy Lake--White-Fall Lake...

Being desirous of obtaining a drawing of a moose-deer, and also of making some observation on the height of the Aurora, I set out on the 23d, to pass a few days at the Basquiau...

On Sunday, the 23d of May, the whole of our party embarked at Gravesend on board the ship Prince of Wales, belonging to the Hudson's Bay Company, just as she was in the act of g...

On the day after our arrival at Fort Chipewyan we called upon Mr. Mac Donald, the gentleman in charge of the Hudson's Bay Establishment called Fort Wedderburne, and delivered to...

Departure from Chipewyan--Difficulties of the various Navigation of the Rivers and Lakes, and of the Portages--Slave Lake and Fort Providence--Scarcity of Provisions, and Discon...

Passage up Hayes', Steel, and Hill Rivers--Cross Swampy Lake--Jack River--Knee Lake, and Magnetic Islet--Trout River--Holy Lake{2}--Weepinapannis River--Windy Lake--White Fall L...

Departure from England--Transactions at Stromness--Enter Davis' Straits--Perilous situation on the shore of Resolution Island--Land on the coast of Labrador--Esquimaux of Savage...