LABR.U)OR JOURNAL 103 



Suiidaij, May 3, 1772. 1 measured the thickness 

 of the ice in the river, and found it to be upwards 

 of three feet. Read prayers to the family. In the 

 evening, an otter came up the river, on the ice, 

 when the hounds winding him, went off in full cry, 

 and soon came up with and killed him. 



Tuesdaij, Man 5, 1772. At day-light I sent 

 Fogarty and Bettres with some provisions, &c. 

 on the Nescaupick sled to the tilt, and at eight 

 o'clock I followed them myself, with Mrs. Selby, 

 my tent, and the rest of my baggage on an Esqui- 

 mau sled, drawn by six dogs. As we went down 

 the river, I saw, first one deer, then two, and after- 

 wards three, upon the ice. I fired at the first at 

 the distance of three hundred and fifty yards; at 

 the second at three hundred; ''and at one of the 

 third at one hundred and thirty yards, which I 

 killed, but missed both the others. Having two 

 couple of unentered hounds with me, I let them 

 all loose to blood them, but the old dog following 

 the first deer, I was not able to catch him again. 

 After permitting the hounds to tear at the throat 

 for a while, I harnessed them again, left the bag- 

 gage on the ice, laid the deer on the sled, and we 

 returned home. The other two deer, which were 

 \\ith the one that T had killed, having turned 

 back and run up the river on our track, T laid the 

 linunds on their slot, and they ran it so eagerly, 

 that they did not observe where they turned into 

 the woods, but kept on in full cry all tlie way to 

 mv door. Tlie crv of the hounds beinc: echoed 

 from a variety nf ])laces, was fine beyond descrip- 



