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on his way to us. He now informed us that he 

 had, on his way to the tent, left on the hill above 

 the pines a gun and forty-eight balls, which 

 Perrault had given to him when with the rest of 

 Mr. Franklin's party, he took leave of him. It 

 will be seen, on a reference to Mr. Franklin's 

 journal, that Perrault carried his gun and ammu- 

 nition with him when they parted from Michel 

 and Belanger. After we had made a fire, and 

 drank a little of the country tea, Hepburn and I 

 returned to the tent, where we arrived in the 

 evening, much exhausted with our journey. 

 Michel preferred, sleeping where he was, and re- 

 quested us to leave him the hatchet, which we 

 did, after he had promised to come early in the 

 mornin"- to assist us in carrying the tent and bed- 

 ding. Mr. Hood remained in bed all day. See- 

 ing nothing of Belanger to-day, we gave him up 

 for lost. 



On the 11th, after waiting until late in the 

 morning for Michel, who did not come, Hepburn 

 and I loaded ourselves with the bedding, and, 

 accompanied by Mr. Hood, set out for the pines. 

 Mr. Hood was much affected with dimness of 

 sight, giddiness, and other symptoms of extreme 

 debility, which caused us to move very slow, and 

 to make frequent haks. 



On arriving at the pines, we were much 



