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ble circumstance that attended us this evening. Our 

 friend Augustus was seized with ;i shivering fit, in 

 of having imprudently rushed, when in 

 full perspiration, into a lake of cold water, to drug out 

 a reindeer which he had killed. lie was unable to 

 walk oncoming out of the water, mid the consequence 

 would have been more serious had it not been for the 

 kindness of his companion, Wilson, who deprived 

 himself of his flannels and waistcoat to clothe him. 

 On their arrival at the tent, Augustus was put be- 

 tween blankets, and provided with warm chocolate, 

 and the only inconvenience that he felt next morning 

 was pain in his limbs. 



;'- v ' We had several showers of rain during the 

 night, with a steady S.W. breeze, and in the morning 

 of the 31st were delighted by perceiving the ice 

 loosening and driving off the land. We were afloat 

 in a few minutes, and enjoyed the novelty of pulling 

 through an uninterrupted channel as far as Point 

 Demarcation, which has been so named from its \>- 

 situated in longitude 141° \\\, the boundary betwi 

 the British and Russian dominions on the north 



-; of America. This point seems t > be in:: 



rted to by the Esquimaux, as we found here many 

 winter houses, and four large stages. On the latter 



were deposited several bundles of seal and deer ski 

 and several pair of snow-shoes. The snow-shoes were 



