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Updated: May 29, 2025

Meantime, seeing our way clear before us, we weighed anchor, and advanced to within three miles of the establishment, when a boat was seen approaching, rowed by six stout islanders. On coming along-side, a rope was thrown to them, and made fast to the fore-stem.

John McLean - Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory : Volume II.