//, the An ''<■ /.'■ / 'ons. 



■ cheered by the Bight of a large herd of reindeer, 

 and Hepburn went in pursuit of them ; but his hand 

 being unsteady through weakness he missed. He was 



shausted by this fruitless attempt, that we wi 

 obliged to encamp upon the Bpotj, although it wai 

 very unfavorable one. 



• day we had fine and clear, but cold weather. 

 We set out early, and, in crossing a hill, found a con- 

 siderable quantity of tripe de roche. About noon 

 fell upon Little Marten Lake, having walked about 

 two miles. The Bight of a place that we knew in- 

 spired us with fresh vigor, and there being compara- 

 tively little Bnow on tin- ice, we advanced at a i 

 to which we had lately been unaccustomed. In the 

 afternoon we cr issed a recent track of a wolverene, 

 which, from a parallel maik in the Bnow, appeared to 

 have been dragging something. Hepburn traced it, 

 and npon the borders of the. lake found the Bpine of a 

 .leer, that it had dropped. It was clean picked, and 

 at least one season old \ hut we extracted the spinal 

 marrow from it, which, even in its frozen state, wai 

 acrid as to excoriate the lips. We encamped within 

 sight of the Dog-rib Rock, and from the coldness 

 the night and the want of fuel, rested very ill. 



On the 28th w ' day-break, but from the 



want of the small fire, that we usually made in the 

 mornings to warm our fingers, a very long time 



