In tfo Arctic Regions. 



nigh! wae cold with a bard frost, and th< 



ther, yel we could not by any 

 means keep ourselves warm, but remained treml 

 the whole time. The following morning v. ■ 

 several lak sionally seeing the recent tracl 



and at noon we fell upon Marten Lake ; and it 

 happened to be the pot where we had been the 



Last year with the canoes, and though I immedi 



1 the place, the men would not believe it to 

 be tin' Bame ; at length, by pointing out Beveral m 

 and relating circumstances connected with them, they 



red their memory, and a simultane< 

 sion i f " Mon Dieu, none sommes Bauve*s," brok 

 from the whole. Contrary to our expectations, the 

 lake was frozen sufficiently to bear us, bo that we \\ r 

 excused from making the lours of the different 

 This circumstance Beemed to add fresh vigor to us, 

 we walked as fast as the extreme smoothm 



iuld permit, intending to reach the Slave I! k 

 that night ; but an unforeseen and almost fatal 

 denl prev< nted th ■ pros< cution of our plan : B 



med the victim of misfortune) again bi 

 through the ice, in a deep part near the h I 

 rapid, but was timely Baved, by fastening our \\ 

 belts together, and pulling him out. By urging 

 forwards as quick as his icy garments would admit of, 

 to prevenl his freezing, we reached a few pin< -. 



