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were cheered by the sight of a large herd of reindeer, 
and Hepburn went in pursuit of them ; but his hand 
being unsteady through weakness he missed. He was 
so exhausted by this fruitless attempt, that we were 
obliged to encamp upon the spot, although it was a 
very unfavorable one. 
Next day we had fine and clear, but cold weather. 
We set out early, and, in crossing a hill, found a con- 
siderable quantity of tripe de roche. About noon we 
fell upon Little Marten Lake, having walked about 
two miles. The sight of a place that we knew in- 
spired ns with fresh vigor, and there being compara- 
tively little snow on the ice, we advanced at a pace 
to which we had lately been unaccustomed. In the 
afternoon we crossed a recent track of a wolverene, 
which, from a parallel mark in the snow, appeared to 
have been dragging something. Hepburn traced it, 
and upon the borders of the lake found the spine of a 
deer, that it had dropped. It was clean picked, and 
at least one season old; but we extracted the spinal 
marrow from it, which, even in its frozen state, was so 
acrid as to excoriate the lips. We encamped within 
sight of the Dog-rib Rock, and from the coldness of 
the night and the want of fuel, rested very ill. 
On the 28th we rose at day-break, but from the 
want of the small fire, that we usually made in the 
mornings to warm our fingers, a very long time was 
