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ADVENTURES BY LAND AND SEA. 185 



our journey resumed. Later in the day each man had a 

 small piece of dried meat, quite insufficient to satisfy 

 his appetite; but, hungry though we were, the motto 

 plainly written on every man's face was, " Speed the 

 paddle." Thus we pressed on for two days, making 

 good progress, but having scarcely anything to eat the 

 work began to tell on us. 



On the 22nd we were again storm-bound by a heavy 

 le with snow, which lasted four days. During this 

 time we suffered considerably from the violence of the 

 storm as well as from want of food. As soon as it had 

 .bated sufficiently, which was not until the morning of 

 the 25th, two of the men, Pierre and Louis, were sent out 

 with the shot-guns to hunt for food, and with our rifles 

 y brother and I set out for an all-day tramp into the 

 interior. We found our camp was situated near the 

 end of a long narrow point at the back of which was 

 eville Bay. The point consisted in places of extended 

 fields of water-washed boulders, and in order to reach 

 the mainland we had to cross these. The necessity of 

 doing this, together with the fact that we were walking 

 with weakened limbs into the teeth of a gale, made 

 travelling extremely difficult. 



Shortly after leaving camp a hare jumped out from 

 among the rocks, and coming to a fatal stand, was per- 

 forated by a slug from my " Marlin." Not wishing to 

 carry it all day, it was left with Pierre and Louis to 

 be taken to camp. By three o'clock, after a long and 

 laborious march and securing nothing but a solitary 

 ptarmigan, my brother and I reached the bottom of the 

 bay and there discovered the mouth of a large river 

 which flowed into it. We would gladly have stayed 

 some time in this vicinity, but as the day was already 



