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falling again upon some branch of the Contwoy-to. 

 Some deer were seen in the morning, but the hunters 

 failed of killing any, and in the afternoon we fell into 

 the track of a large herd, which had passed the day 

 before, but did not overtake them. In consequence 

 of this want of success we had no breakfast, and but a 

 scanty supper ; but we allayed the pangs of hunger, 

 by eating pieces of singed hide. A little tripe de roche 

 was also obtained. These would have satisfied us in 

 ordinary times, but we were now almost exhausted by 

 slender fare and travel, and our appetites had become 

 ravenous. We looked, however, with humble confi- 

 dence to the great Author and Giver of all good, for 

 a continuance of the support which had hitherto been 

 always supplied to us at our greatest need. The 

 thermometer varied to-day between 25° and 2S°. 

 The wind blew fresh from the south. 



On the 18th the atmosphere was hazy, but the day 

 was more pleasant for walking than usual. The coun- 

 try was level and gravelly, and the snow very deep. 

 \W went for a short time aliing a deeply beaten road, 

 made by the reindeer, which turned suddenly off to 

 the Bouth-west, which was a direction so wide of our 



course that we could not venture upon following it. 



All the small Lakes were frozen, and we marched across 



which lay in our track. We supped off the 



tripe de roche which had been gathered during our 



