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course of the river to the lower lake, when St. < ; n 

 fell in, which obliged us to encamp directly to prei 

 his being frozen ; indeed we were all glad of stoppii 

 for in our meagre and reduced Btate it was impose 

 to resisi the weather, which at any other time would 

 have bei n thought fine ; my toes were frozen, and al- 

 though wrapped in a blankel I could not keep my 

 hands warm. 



The l_th wai Id with fresh bre 



Our meal at night consisted of scraps of old deer si 

 and Bwamp tea, and the men complained greatly of 

 their increasing debility. The following morning I 

 Ben I Bt. Q rmain to hunt, intending I me dis- 



tance down the lake, but the weather becoming ex- 

 lingly thick with Bnow storms, we were prevented 

 from moving. Be returned without success, not h 

 ing seen any animals. We had nothing to 



In the morning of the 14th the part of the laki 

 fore as was quite frozen. There was so much urn 

 tainty in St. Germain's answers as to the chanci 

 an] Indians being in the direction we were th< i 

 (although he had previously said that the leader I 

 told him he should be there.) and he gave me bo mu 

 itisfaction in his hunting excursions, that I was 

 duced to send a note to the Commander, whom 1 Bup- 

 d to be by this ti I to inform 



him oi' our situation ; not that I imagined for a mo- 



