Amount of the above returns, 115 Packs.

Different establishments not included, 34 Packs.

Amount of the E. of the X. Y. Company, 84 Packs.

Total amount, 233 Packs.

E. Return of men employed in the N. W. Company's Department of Fond du Lac, for 1805, with the amount of their wages per annum, etc.

Accountants, 3
Clerks, and men receiving interpreters' wages, 19
Interpreters, 2
Canoe-men, 85
Total, 109
Women and Children belonging to the Establishment.
Women, 29
Children, 50
Total, 79
Livres.
Sum of the wages per annum of the above 109 men,63,913
Average wages of each man,5867
Due by the N. W. Company,38,5668
Due to the N. W. Company,24,32616

N. B. The above women are all Indians, there not being a single white woman N. W. of Lake Superior.

CHAPTER VII.
GEOGRAPHY OF THE MISSISSIPPI.[VII-1]