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an Indian encampment. In the course of his search 

 one of his companions was found dead ; " I found 

 him," reported St. Germain, " stretched upon his 

 back on a sand-bank, frozen to death, his limbs all 

 extended and swelled enormously, and as hard as 

 the ice that was near him." " We had the happi- 

 ness," says Franklin, " of joining our friend Mr. 

 Back at Moose-deer Island; our feelings on this 

 occasion can well be imagined, and we were deeply 

 impressed with gratitude to him for his exertions in 

 sending the supply of food to Fort Enterprise, to 

 which, under Divine Providence, we felt the pre- 

 servation of our lives to be owing. He gave us an 

 affecting detail of the proceedings of his party since 

 our separation." 



It remains only to state, that the whole party 

 who had survived the long endurement of privation 

 and fatigue, arrived in safety at Fort Chipewyan. 

 Here they arranged all their accounts to the satis- 

 faction of those who had been under their employ, 

 Indians as well as Canadians, and here Captain 

 Franklin concludes his painfully interesting narra- 

 tive : — 



" We were here furnished with a canoe by Mr. Smith, 

 and a bowman to act as our guide ; and having left Fort 

 Chipewyan on the 5th June, we arrived on the 4th July at 

 Norway House. Finding at this place that canoes were 

 about to go down to Montreal, I discharged all our Cana- 

 dian voyagers, and sent them by these vessels, furnishing 

 them with orders on the agent of the Hudson's Bay Com- 



