‘ NORTHERN OCEAN. 
Accordingly we purfued our courfe, and about 
two o’clock in the morning of the twenty-: 
fifth, come up with fome of the women, who 
had then pitched their tents by the fide of Coge- 
ad Lake. 
From our leaving the Copper-mine River to,this 
time we had travelled fo hard, and taken fo little 
reft by the way, that my feet and legs had fwell- 
ed confiderably, and I had become quite {tiff at 
theankles. In this fituation I had fo little pow- 
er to direct my feet when walking, that I fre- 
quently knocked them again{ft the flones with 
fuch force, as not only to jar and diforder them, 
but my legs alfo; and the nails of my toes were 
bruifed to fuch a degree, that feveral of them fef- 
tered and dropped off. ‘To add to this mifhap, 
the fkin was.entirely chafed off from the tops of 
both my feet, and between every toe; fo that the 
fand and gravel, which I could by no means ex- 
clude, irritated the raw parts fo much, that for a 
whole day before we arrived at the women’s 
tents, I left the print of my feet in blood almott 
at every ftep I took. Several of the Indians be- 
ganto complain that their feet alfo were fore ; 
but, on examination, not one of them was the 
twentieth part in fo bada ftate as mine. © 
_ This being the firft time I,had been in fuch a 
fituation, or feen any body foot-foundered, Iwas -: 
much alarmed, and under great apprehenfions 
for the confequences. Though I was but little 
fatigued 
