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two Esquimaux, Junius and Augustus. All the 

 party set out on foot. On crossing a small lake, 

 Franklin fell in through the ice, and soon after 

 Back did the same, and Junius also, with a heavy 

 burden on his back, but none of them were hurt. 

 It was not till the 21st that Franklin's party joined 

 Dr. Richardson at Point Lake. To ease the men 

 who had carried the canoes, the third canoe was left 

 here, as by doing this three men were gained to 

 assist those who had become lame. 



It were tedious, and not very interesting, to repeat 

 the details of the journey over lakes, down rapids 

 and cataracts, over portages, and across a hilly 

 country, dreadfully fatiguing to the men ; or to 

 relate the alternate successes and disappointments 

 of the hunters. It is enough to say that on the 

 30th of June the} T embarked on the Copper Mine 

 River, which, at a point called Rock-nest, is stated 

 to be about two hundred yards wide, ten feet deep, 

 and to flow very rapidly over a rocky bottom ; its 

 banks picturesque, the hills shelving to the water 

 side, well covered with wood, and the surface of the 

 rocks richly clothed with lichens. Musk-oxen were 

 here very plentiful near the river, and in all this 

 part of the country; and, like the buffalo, herd to- 

 gether in bands, so that one day the hunters killed 

 eight cows. It is said that when two or three men 

 get so near a herd as to fire at them from different 

 points, instead of separating or running away, these 



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