238 JOURNEY TO THE SHORES 



I determined, therefore, to make at once for 

 Arctic Sound, where we had found the animals 

 more numerous than at any other place; and 

 entering Hood's River, to advance up that stream 

 as far as it was navigable, and then to construct 

 small canoes out of the materials of the larger 

 ones, which could be carried in crossing the 

 barren grounds to Fort Enterprise. 



August 19.— We were ahnost beaten out of 

 our comfortless abodes by rain during the night, 

 and this morning the gale continued without 

 diminution. The thermometer fell to 33°. Two 

 men were sent with Junius to search for the deer 

 which Augustus had killed. Junius returned in 

 the evening, bringing part of the meat, but owing 

 to the thickness of the weather, his companions 

 parted from him and did not make their appear- 

 ance. Divine service was read. On the 20th we 

 were presented with the most chilling prospect, 

 the small pools of water being frozen over, the 

 ground being covered with snow, and the ther- 

 mometer at the freezing point at mid-day. Flights 

 of geese were passing to the southward. The 

 wind, however, was more moderate, having 

 changed to the eastward. Considerable anxiety 

 prevailing respecting Belanger and Michel, the 

 two men who strayed from Junius yesterday, the 

 rest were sent out to look for them. The search 



