A GREAT MROZBN LAKE. 101 
Finding great quantities of moss in the neighborhood, 
‘several large piles of it were collected, tied up into 
bundles and taken back with us to camp for fuel. Two 
varieties of this moss fuel were commonly found growing 
upon the stony hill-tops, the one, reindeer moss (lichen 
rangiferinus), being almost white, and the other, black 
and wiry looking, and the better fuel of the two. Hither 
variety, of course, had to be dry in order to burn, and 
that was a condition in which we seldom found it, as 
incessant wet weather had been experienced since 
entering the Barren Grounds. 
When dry moss was found, therefore, it was our 
custom to keep the kettles boiling all or most of the 
night, in order to cook enough meat to supply camp for 
several days. 
FRENCH-CREE HALF-BREED. 
