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converted the. last of our flour into flat cakes, 

 baked in the frying-pan, and they were just 

 about enough to last us until we reached our 

 store on the river, if we did not delay very long 

 in getting there. Besides the bread and a 

 little tea we still had meat enough for a few 

 more meals. 



Saturday, October 21st, was about as bad a 

 day for travelling as one could well imagine, 

 all the beauties of the landscape being 

 obscured by showers of sleety rain. Had we 

 had more food I think we would have lain over 

 a day under the shelter of our tarpaulin, hoping 

 for better things on the morrow, but as it was 

 we had to get on, so we made our wa}" doAvn 

 through the soaking woods to the river, Avhich 

 we reached at about midday, just in the middle 

 of the narrow rocky canyon. 



For the last week we had been getting wet 

 regularly every da}-, but there are degrees of 

 wetness, and we were so thoroughly soaked 

 when we finally waded waist-deep through the 

 river, that I believe we were just as wet 

 through above the water as below it. 



