/ ■ .'',. An lie H i ' 



Be did no1 

 fcionoft] until the following summer, [can- 



not describe what every one felt at beholding the 

 skeleton which the Doctor's debilitated frame exhibi- 

 ted. When he stripped, the Canadians simultaneous- 

 ly exclaimed, " Ah que nous sommes maigres." I 

 sliall best explain his Btate and that of the party, by 

 the following extract from his journal: ' : It may be 

 worthy of remark, that I would have had little hesita- 

 tion in any former period of my life, of plunging into 

 water even below 38° Fahrenheit ; hut at this t 

 1 was reduced almost to Bkin and 1 like the 



of the party, suffered from of cold that 



ild have been disregarded whilst in health and 



>r, During the whole of our march we experien 



that no quantity of clothing could keep us warm 



whilst we fasted, but on those occasions on which we 



were enabled to go to bed with full stomachs, we 



id the night in a warm and comfortable mam: 

 In following the detail of our friend's narro 



\-r omitted to mention, that when he wasaboul 

 Btep into the water, he put his foot on a dagger, which 

 cut him to the bone ; but this misfortune could i 

 stop him from attempting the execution of his gene- 

 ous undertaking. 



In the evening Augustus came in. He had walked 

 a day and a half beyond the place from whence 



