Having now gotten my Collectors outfit and engaged a man to help me to Fort Rae, I left St. Resolution about 3. P.M. accom- panied by James McKinlay for- merly of the H.B.Co. who was go- with me on my trip - having favor. Nice weather we pushed as well into the night and reached Stone Island where we camped Saturday July 18 We awoke to find the wind against me, so that we were unable to start on the long passage to the first Island The one, land on the island appeared was Sandwich Sparrow. Roses were in full bloom and in addition the following flowers were noted. Castilleja, Stellaria, Amelanchier, Rubus (1/2 feet high) and several yellow flowers which I do not know but which I have taken at St. Resolution. Toward noon the wind veered around a little and we rigged up a square sail, intending to follow the short coastline and take the other canoe route which has shorter traverses but the wind proved to be so strong as we were obliged to land at the Trading House just east the Island, on the main shore. These houses are on or near the site of the first trading post built on G.S.Dale, by the Northwest Co. in 1785. Here in a shallow bay we had shelter from the waves. In the woods nearby I saw Cornus Canadensis, Empetrum nigrium, Ledum Palustre, Castilleja, White Spruce, Tamarack, Populus balsamegira Betula Papyrifera, Alnus., etc. About 4 P.M. The wind abated sufficiently to allow us to sail, and we proceeded Eastward, soon having to take to the paddles. We reached the Point of Rocks about 8 P.M. and as there was only a slight head wind started for the remote islands which we reached before eleven. They were of rock like the other islands in the East of the Lake and more clothed, wherever there was any with a stunted growth of birch white spruce, willow Betulapiper with Empetrum, Vaccinium, Vitis labrusca, Ledum (narrow leaved), Rosa Stellaria Myrica Gale Jumperus nana Polygala, Dryopteris and ferns collected. Aristolochia, Rubus chamaemorus, Rubus (canadensis) Capsules