1 68 ON SNOW-SHOES TO THE BARREN GROUNDS 



ing-knife, compass, camera, thermometer, ten pounds of 

 tea, twelve pounds of tobacco, ten pounds of flour, and 

 ten balls of pemmican (provisions I intended to cache at 

 the last wood, where, if we succeeded in getting back, I 

 knew we should arrive in starving condition), two bottles 

 of my old friend mustang liniment, a pint of brandy I had 

 carried from Hamilton, and the antiseptic lozenges and 

 bandages, and iodoform, in case it became necessary to 

 play surgeon for one of the party or myself. 



