Jn (In Artie Regions. 



naut the whole party, and in Beveral it produ 



bowel complaints. Mr. Eood was the I Buffer' 



i r from this cans.'. This evening we were extremely 

 distressed at discovering thai our improvident com- 

 panions, since we lefl Hood's River, had thrown away 

 three of the fishing nets, and burnt the i they 



knew we had brought them to procure subsistence for 

 the party, when the animals should fail, and we could 

 ■ cly believe the fact of their having wilfully de- 

 prived themselves of this resource, especially when wi 

 considered that mosl of them had passed the 

 part of their servitude in situations where the nets 

 alone had supplied them with food. Being thus de- 

 prived of our principal resource, that of fishing, ami 

 the men evidently getting weaker every day, it became 

 necessary t<> lighten their burdens of every thing 

 except ammunition, clothing, and the instruments 

 that were required to find our way. I, theref 

 issued directions to deposit at this encampment the 

 dipping needle, azimuth compass, magnet, a Lai 

 thermometer, and a lew hooks we had carried, having 

 torn nut of these Buch parts as we Bhould requin 

 work the observations for latitude and longitude. I 

 1. as an excitement to the efforts in hunt- 

 ing, my gun to St. Germain, and an ample compel 



(ion to Adam, or any of the other men who Bhould kill 



any animals, Mr. Hood, on this occasion, lent his 



