3U JOURNEY TO THE SHORES 



our's, and the circumstance of his having found 

 his way through a part of the country he had 

 never been in before, must be considered a re- 

 markable proof of sagacity. The unusual earli- 

 ness of this winter became manifest to us from 

 the state of things at this spot. Last year at the 

 same season, and still later there had been very 

 little snowon the ground, and we were surrounded 

 by vast herds of rein-deer ; now there were but 

 few recent tracks of these animals, and the snow 

 was upwards of two feet deep. Winter River 

 was then open, now it was frozen two feet 

 thick. 



When I arose the following morning, my body 

 and Hmbs were so swollen that I was unable to 

 walk more than a few yards. Adam was in a 

 still worse condition, being absolutely incapable 

 of rising without assistance. My other com- 

 panions fortunately experienced this inconveni- 

 ence in a less degree, and went to collect bones, 

 and some ttnpe de roche which supplied us with 

 two meals. The bones were quite acrid, and the 

 soup extracted from them excoriated the mouth if 

 taken alone, but it was somewhat milder when 

 boiled with tripe de roche, and we even thought 

 the mixture palatable, with the addition of salt, 

 of which a cask had been fortunately left here in 

 the spring. Augustus to-day set two fishing lines 



