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them, whether i ' raw it made do di 



We had Bel fishing-lines, bu1 withoul any bu 



and v ft( n saw large herds of deer en Bsing the lake 



at full speed, and wolves pursuing them. 



The night of the 25th was cold, with hard I 

 Early the next morning I sent the men to cover tlie 

 body ofourdeparted companion, Beauparlant, with the 

 trunks and branches of trees, which they did ; and 

 shortly after their return I opened his bundle, and 

 found ii contained two papers of vermilion, several 

 strings of I Is, flints, awls, fish- 



hooks, rings, linen, and the glass of an artificial hori- 

 zon. My two men began to r< cover a little as w, 11 as 



myself, though 1 was by far the weakest of the tin 



the Boles of my feel were cracked all over, ami the 

 other parts were as hard as a horn, from constant 

 walking. I again urged the necessity of advancing 

 to join the Commander's party, but they said they 

 w.ae Qot yel sufficiently Btrong, 



On the 27th we discovered the remains of a deer, 

 on which we feasted. The night was unusually cold, 

 and ice formed in a pint-pol within two feel of a fire. 

 The corru8cations of the Annua wi re beautifully bril- 

 liant ; they served to Bhew us eight wolves, which we 

 had Borne trouble to frighten away from our collection 

 of deers' bones ; and, with their howling, and the i 

 slant cracking of ti did DOt get much i 



