198 Kennedy's expedition. 



piidding- with a little flour, and in the situation we 

 were, we enjoj^ed it very much. 



Oct. Srd. — We killed the horse this morning" as 

 he was not able to stand, and dried the meat to 

 carry with us ; we made a small stage of sapling-s 

 on which to dry the meat, which was cut off close to 

 the bone as clean as possible, and then cut in thin 

 slices, and laid on the stng-e in the sun to dry, and 

 the sun being- very hot, it dried well j the heart, 

 liver, and kidne}^ were parboiled, and cut up fine, 

 and mixed with the blood of the horse and about 

 three pounds of flour ; they made four pudding's, 

 with A\'hich, after the}" had boiled about four hours, 

 we satisfied our appetites better than we had been 

 able to do for some time : it was served up in the 

 same manner as our usual rations, in equal parts, 

 and each man hr.d a right to reserve a portion of 

 his mess till the next day — but very little was saved. 

 Mr. Kennedy found that it was even necessary to 

 have the horse flesh watched whilst drying", finding- 

 that two or three of the party had secreted small 

 quantities among-st their clothes ; such precautions 

 were quite necessary, — as well in justice to the whole 

 of the party, as to keep up the streng'th of all, which 

 seemed to be very fast declining-. At nig-ht we 

 made a fire to smoke the meat, and to destroy the 

 mag-o-ots, which were very numerous in it j we 

 packed the meat in empty flour bag's. 



Oct. 4:th. — We proceeded northward over small 

 sandy plains, covered with annual g-rass, which was 



