152 Thirty Years 
venience was not regarded, as the day was unusually 
warm ; the temperature at two P. M. being 822°. 
At Marten Lake we joined the canoe party, and en- 
‘-camped with them. We had the mortification of 
learning from our hunters that the meat they had put’ 
-en cache here, had been destroyed by the wolverenes, 
‘and we had in consequence, to furnish the supper 
from our scanty stock of dried meat. The wind 
changed from §.E. to N.E. in the evening, and the 
weather became very cold, the thermometer being 43°. 
at nine P.M. The few dwarf birches we could collect 
afforded fire insufficient to keep us warm, and we 
retired undér the covering of our blankets as soon as 
the supper was despatched. The N.E. breeze ren- 
dered the night so extremely cold, that we procured 
-but little sleep, having neither fire nor shelter, for 
though we carried our tents, we had been forced to 
leave the tent poles which we could not now replace ; 
we therefore gladly recommenced the journey at five 
in the morning, and traveled through the remaining 
part of the lake on the ice. Its surface being quite 
smooth, the canoes were dragged along expeditiously 
by the dogs, and the rest of the party had to walk 
very quick to keep pace with them, which occasioned 
them to get many heavy falls, By the time we had 
reached the end of the lake, the wind had increased to 
a perfect gale, and the atmosphere was so cold that 
