A GREAT FROZEN LAKE. 



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Finding great quantities of moss in the neighborhood, 

 several large piles of it were collected, tied up into 

 bundles and taken back with us to camp for fuel. Two 

 varieties of this moss fuel were commonly found growing 

 upon the stony hill-tops, the one, reindeer moss (lichen 

 rangiferinus), being almost white, and the other, black 

 &nd wiry looking, and the better fuel of the two. Either 

 variety, of course, had to be dry in order to burn, and 

 that was a condition in which we seldom found it, as 

 incessant wet weather had been experienced since 

 entering the Barren Grounds. 



When dry moss was found, therefore, it was our 

 custom to keep the kettles boiling all or most of the 

 night, in order to cook enough meat to supply camp for 

 several days. 



FRENCH-CREE HALF-BREED. 



