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them, whether cooked or raw it made no difference. 
We had set fishing-lines, but without“any success ; 
and we often saw large herds of deer crossing the lake 
at full speed, and wolves pursuing them. ~ - 
The night of the 25th was cold, with hard frost. 
Early the next morning I sent the men to cover the 
body of our departed companion, Beauparlant, with the 
trunks and branches of trees, which they did; and. 
shortly after their return I opened his bundle, and - 
found it contained two papers of vermilion, several 
strings of beads, some fire-steels, flints, awls, fish- 
hooks, rings, linen, and the glass of an artificial hori- 
zon. My two men began to recover a little as well as 
myself, though I was by far the weakest of the three ; 
' the soles of my feet were cracked all over, and the 
other parts were as hard’ as a horn, from constant 
walking. I again urged the necessity of advancing 
to join the Commander’s party, but they said they. 
were not yet sufficiently strong. 
On the 27th we discovered the remains of a deer, 
on which we feasted. The night was unusually cold, 
and. ice formed in a pint-pot within two feet of a fire. 
The corruscations of the Aurora were beautifully bril- 
liant ; they served to shew us eight wolves, which we 
had some trouble to frighten away from our collection 
of deers’ bones ; and, with their howling, and the con- 
stant cracking of the ice, we did not get much rest, 
