CHAPTER IX. 



Woman's Care. — The anxious Guides. — A solemn Ceremony. — Prolonged 

 Misery and a new Disaster. — Tlie Dilemma. — A Cruel Deception. — 

 The last Night. — A glorious Discovery. — Hope and Deliverance. — 

 Hunger of Dogs : its Consequences.— Thirst. — Kind Reception. — The 

 Tuski Garrick. — The Hot Spring. — New Cookery. 



The rising of the moon brought no alteration to 

 our condition ; so thickly fell the heavy snow-flakes, 

 we could barely tell, by a faint glimmering, in which 

 direction she lay, and we were perforce induced to 

 arrange our sledges for repose, following in this the 

 movements of Mooldooyah, and aided by the sugges- 

 tions and touch of Yaneenga, who was ever watchful 

 of our comfort ; not more anxious perhaps than the 

 good man, but more alive to our wants, — and — there, 

 I need not talk any more to show that woman always 

 is worth a dozen of the other sex for tender care and 

 attention. 



Mooldooyah and his wife were evidently in a 

 state of terrible anxiety for our safety; for them- 

 selves they could have little fear, inured as they were 



