The “Northland Trader” who afterwards beat herself to pieces on the rocks of an Island in Great Slave Lake.
After Fort Providence, the first Trading Post on the McKenzie River, we passed Fort Simpson and came to Fort Liard.
Just after leaving that Post a moose essayed to swim across our bows. Some of the Indian crew launched a Canoe, chased and shot him.
Tying a rope around his neck, they pulled him alongside
