NORTHERN OCEAN. 
ponds on the ice; but that mode of travelling 
now growing dangerous on account of the great 
thaws, we determined to throw away our fledg. 
es, and every one to take a load on his back. 
This I found to be much harder work than the 
Winter carriage, as my part of the luggage con- 
fifted of the following articles, viz. the quadrant 
and its ftand, a trunk containing books, papers, ~’ 
&c. a land-compafs, and a large bag containing 
all my wearing apparel ; alfo a hatchet, knives, 
files, &c. befide feveral fmall articles, intended 
for prefents to the natives. The aukwardnefs of 
my load, added to its great weight, which was 
upward of fixty pounds, and the exceffive heat 
of the weather, rendered walking the moft labo- 
rious tafk I had ever encountered; and what 
confiderably increafed the hardfbip, was the bad- 
nefs of the road, and the coarfenels of our lodg- 
ing, being, on account of the want of proper 
tents, expofed to the utmoft feverity of the wea. 
ther. ‘Phe tent we had with us was not only too 
large, and unfit for barren ground fervice, where 
no poles were to be got, but we had been obliged 
to cut it up for fhoes, and each perfon carried 
his own fhare. Indeed my guide behaved both 
negligently and ungeneroufly on this occafion ; 
-as he never made me, or my Southern Indians, 
acquainted with the nature of pitching tents on 
the barren ground; which had he done, we 
could aa have procured a fet of poles before 
we left the” woods. He took care, however, to 
procure 
