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Our supper consisted of tripe de roche and half a par- 
tridge each. “ 
Our progress next day was extremely slow, from the 
difficulty of managing the canoe in passing over the 
hills, as the breeze was fresh, Peltier, who had it in 
charge, having received several severe falls, became 
impatient, and insisted on leaving his burden, as it 
had already been much injured by the accidents of 
this day ; and no arguments we could use were suffi- 
cient to prevail on him to continue carrying it. Vail- 
lant was, therefore, directed to take it, and we proceed- 
ed forward. Having found he got on very well, and 
was walking even faster than Mr. Hood could, in his 
present debilitated state, I pushed forward to stop the 
rest of the party, who had got out of our sight during 
the delay which the discussion about the canoe had 
occasioned. I accidentally passed the body of the men, 
and followed the tracks of two persons, who had sepa- 
rated from the rest, until two P.M., when, not seeing 
any person, I retraced my steps, and on my: way met 
Dr. Richardson, who had also missed the party whilst 
he was employed gathering tripe de roche, and we 
went back together in search of them. We found 
they had halted among some willows, where they had 
picked up some pieces of skin, and a few bones of deer 
that had been devoured by the wolves last spring. 
They had rendered the bones friable by burning, and 
