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perience to both of us, as well as to all of our partj^, and in spite of 

 the mice that scampered over us b}' the score, and the howl of 

 the great Esquimaux dogs of the Hudson Bay Compau}?, sleep 

 was sweet. 



Sunday morning broke fine and we saw a magnificent panor- 

 ama of the great I^abrador hills from the doorway of our tent. 

 Thoughts of home and of friends came to our minds while we ad- 

 mired the scenery around us. 



Accompanied by Mr. Jennings, we walked along the bank of 

 North West River till we came in sight of Blake's Camp, at the 

 opening into Grand Lake, and thoughts of poor Hubbard and 

 Wallace's hard experience on this same spot were vividly recalled 

 to our minds. No sign of animal life was apparent around us, and 

 if we had had to subsist on what we could shoot or catch with the 

 line for our daily bread, it became evident that starvation would 

 well nigh have stared us in the face. The banks of the great river 

 were lined with small spruce on both sides, and in attempting to 

 penetrate into the forest primeval we found how difficult it was to 

 wend our way through a pathless wild. 



At ID o'clock a.m. all attended mass conducted by Rev. 

 Father Kavanagh. We gathered into an old church building con- 

 structed by a Jesuit father in 1648 when with a party looking for 

 the North West passage. Father Kavanagh was the second Jesuit 

 priest to visit these shores. This church was without windows, 

 door or floor. 



In the afternoon at bugle call, Rev. Dr. Marsh conducted 

 divine service in the marquee. All the Protestant members of the 

 party assembled and entered heartily into the service, feeling 

 grateful for the many mercies vouchsafed during our long and 

 perilous journey. Far away from civilization as we were situated, 

 it was with no small pride that our party appreciated the fact that 

 our first public service in the wilderness was conducted by one of 

 our own ministers in the person of Rev. Dr. Marsh, Presbyterian 

 minister of Hamilton, and President of the Hamilton Astronomical 

 Society. The text was Hebrew ix., 28: "So Christ was once 



