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pudding with a little flour, and in the situation we 

 were, we enjoyed it very much. 



Oct. Srd. — We killed the horse this morning- as 

 he was not able to stand, and dried the meat to 

 carry with us ; we made a small stage of saplings 

 on M'hich to dry the meat, which was cut off close to 

 the bone as clean as possible, and then cut in thin 

 slices, and laid on the stage in the sun to dry, and 

 the sun being very hot, it dried well; the heart, 

 liver, and kidnej^s were parboiled, and cut up fine, 

 and mixed with the blood of the horse and about 

 three pounds of flour; they made four puddings, 

 with which, after they had boiled about four hours, 

 we satisfied our appetites better than we had been 

 able to do for some time : it was served up in the 

 same manner as our usual rations, in equal parts, 

 and each man had a right to reserve a portion of 

 his mess till the next day — but very little was saved. 

 Mr. Kennedy found that it was even necessary to 

 have the horse flesh watched whilst drying, finding 

 that two or three of the party had secreted small 

 quantities amongst their clothes; such precautions 

 were quite necessary,— as well in justice to the whole 

 of the party, as to keep up the strength of all, which 

 seemed to be very fast declining. At night we 

 made a fire to smoke the meat, and to destroy the 

 maggots, which were very numerous in it ; we 

 packed the meat in empty floiu* bags. 



Oct. 4:th. — We proceeded northward over small 

 sandy plains, covered with annual grass, which was 



