250 ACROSS THE SUB-ARCTICS OF CANADA. 



thus was completed a canoe and snowshoe journey of 

 three thousand two hundred miles. 



I need hardly say that the telegraph office was soon 

 found, and messages despatched to anxious friends, who, 

 having heard nothing from us for some months, had 

 begun to entertain grave fears for our safety. Thirteen 

 hundred miles more of travel by rail and we were home 

 again, after an absence of just eight months. 



