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 the exceptional difficulties of the time. First one and then another hero came forward to offer his services to the Hudson's Bay Company for new expeditions; first one and then another member of its infant rival accomplished some traveling-feat hitherto looked upon as impossible. Some few among these, such as Hearne of the Hudson's Bay Company, and Mackenzie of the North-west Company, worked below as well as above the 60th parallel of north latitude, and must therefore be noticed here.

AN ESQUIMAUX DWELLING.

Hearne, the first of this brilliant pair of adventurers to start, left the western shores of Hudson's Bay in November, 1769, and accompanied by two Europeans and a number of Indian guides, struck across country in a north