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when the wind having shifted round to the westward, the 

 weather cleared up; and the crew, having dried their 

 clothes, retired to rest. 



18th. Wind W.N.W. and cold weather. Leaving the 

 party to bring on the sledges to the Indian dock, and to 

 repack them, I and the guides having advanced a mile, it 

 was found requisite to cut a path of a hundred yards to pass 

 over the point which the sledges could not round for want 

 of sufficient ice being attached to it. lOA. 30'wenow 

 rounded a bay, leaving several islands on our left,' the tra- 

 velling pretty good, except in some places where the ice 

 was very narrow, and the water oozing over its surface : most 

 of us got wet feet. ^h. 30' P.M. put up in a cove on the 

 north shore, as we should have been unable to have reached 

 before dark another place where good fire-wood was to be 

 found ; here the river forms a bay on either side, leaving 

 between them a space of nearly one mile and a half, in 

 which were several islands. 



Having given directions for the fire-place to be fenced 

 in, and the sledges requiring to be repaired. Cull and my- 

 self went on two miles to Rushy Pond Marsh, where he 

 had been last winter, and found that the two wigwams were 

 removed which he then saw here. The trees leading from 

 the river to the marsh were marked, and in some places a 

 fence-work thrown up ; the bushes in a particular line of 

 direction, through a long extent of marsh, had wisps of 

 birch bark suspended to them by salmon twine, so placed 

 as to direct the deer down to the river ; we killed two par- 

 tridges, and retired to the party by an inland route: we 

 reckon the distance from the Indian dock to this resting-place 

 to be six miles. 



IQth. Westerly wind and moderate, but very cold. Most 

 of this day's travelling over smooth snow, the sledges con- 

 sequently hauled heavy ; having winded for two miles amongst 

 rough ice to gain a green wood on the south shore, that on 

 the north being entirely burnt down, we put up at 4 P.M* 



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