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Publisher: Nicolebooks
Pages: 242
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Height: 0.51 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
ransactions at Fort Enterprise-Mr. Back's Narrative of his Journey
to Chipewyan and Return.
1820. September.
During our little expedition to the Copper-Mine River, Mr. Wentzel had
made great progress in the erection of ourwinter-house, having nearly roofed
it in. But before proceeding to give an account of a ten months' residence at
this place, henceforth designated Fort Enterprise, I may premise, that I shall
omit many of the ordinary occurrences of a North American winter, as they
have been already detailed in so able and interesting a manner by Ellis[1],
and confine myself principally to the circumstances which had an influence
on our progress in the ensuing summer. The observations on the magnetic
needle, the temperature of the atmosphere, the Aurora Borealis, and other
meteorological phenomena, together with the mineralogical and botanical
notices, being less interesting to the general reader, are omitted in this edi-
tion.
[1] Voyage to Hudson's Bay in the Dobbs and California.
The men continued to work diligently at the house, and by the 30th of
3 JOHN FRANKLIN
September had nearly completed it for our reception, when a heavy fall of
rain washed the greater part of the mud off the roof. This rain was remarked
by the Indians as unusual, after what they had deemed so decided a com-
mencement of winter in the early part of the month. The mean temperature
for the month was 33-3/4 deg., but the thermometer had sunk as low as 16
deg., and on one occasion rose to 53 deg..
Besides the party constantly employed at the house, two menwere appointed
to fish, and others were occasionally sent for meat, as the hunters procured it.
This latter employment, although extremely laborious, was always relished
by the Canadians, as they never failed to use a prescriptive right of helping
themselves to the fattest and most delicate parts of the deer. Towards the end
of the month, the rein-deer began to quit the barren grounds, and came into
the vicinity of the house, on their way to the woods; and the success of the
hunters being consequently great, the necessity of sending for the meat con-
siderably retarded the building of the house. In the mean time we resided
in our canvas tents, which proved very cold habitations, although we main-
tained a fire in front of them, and also endeavoured to protect ourselves from
the piercing winds by a barricade of pine branches.
On the 6th of October, the house being completed, we struck our tents, and
removed into it. It was merely a log-building, fifty feet long, and twenty-
four wide, divided into a hall, three bed rooms and a kitchen. The walls
and roof were plastered with clay, the floors laid with planks rudely squared
with the hatchet, and the windows closed with parchment of deer-skin. The
clay, which from the coldness of the weather, required to be tempered before
the fire with hot water, froze as it was daubed on, and afterwards cracked
in such a manner as to admit the wind from every quarter; yet, compared
with the tents, our new habitation appeared comfortable; and having filled
our capacious clay-built chimney with fagots, we spent a cheerful evening
before the invigorating blaze. The change was peculiarly beneficial to Dr.
Richardson, who, having, in one of his excursions, incautiously laid down
on the frozen side of a hill when heated with walking, had caught a severe
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