326 Thirty Years 
balls, which Perrault had given him when with the 
rest of Mr. Franklin’s party, he took leave of him. 
It will be seen, ona reference to Mr. Franklin’s jour- 
nal, that Perrault carried his gun and ammunition 
with him when they parted from Michel and Belan- 
ger. After we had made a fire, and drank a little of 
‘the country tea, Hepburn and I returned to the tent, 
where we arrived in the evening, much exhausted with 
our journey. Michel preferred sleeping where he was, 
and requested us to leave him the hatchet, which we 
did, after he had promised to come early in the morn- 
ing to assist us in carrying the tent and bedding. 
Mr. Hood remained in bed all day. Seeing nothing 
of Belanger to-day, we gave him up for lost. 
On the 11th, after waiting until late in the morn- 
ing for Michel, who did not come, Hepburn and I 
loaded ourselves with the bedding, and accompanied 
by Mr. Hood, set out for the pines. Mr. Hood was , 
much affected with dimness of sight, giddiness, and 
other symptoms of extreme debility, which caused us 
to move very slow, and to make frequent halts. On 
arriving at the pines, we were much alarmed to find 
that Michel was absent. We feared that he had lost 
his way in coming to us in the morning, although it 
was not easy to conjecture how that could have hap- 
pened, as our footsteps of yesterday were very distinct. 
Hepburn went back for the tent, and returned with it 
