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our journey resumed. Later in the day each man had a 
small piece of dried meat, quite insufficient to satisfy 
his appetite; but, hungry though we were, the motto 
plainly written on every man’s face was, “Speed the 
paddle.” Thus we pressed on for two days, making 
good progress, but having scarcely anything to eat the 
work began to tell on us. 
On the 22nd we were again storm-bound by a heavy 
gale with snow, which lasted four days. During this 
time we suffered considerably from the violence of the 
storm as well as from want of food. As soon as it had 
abated sufficiently, which was not until the morning of 
the 25th, two of the men, Pierre and Louis, were sent out 
with the shot-guns to hunt for food, and with our rifles 
my brother and I set out for an all-day tramp into the 
interior. We found our camp was situated near the 
end of a long narrow point at the back of which was 
Neville Bay. The point consisted in places of extended 
fields of water-washed boulders, and in order to reach 
the mainland we had to cross these. The necessity of 
doing this, together with the fact that we were walking 
with weakened limbs into the teeth of a gale, made 
travelling extremely difficult. 
Shortly after leaving camp a hare jumped out from 
among the rocks, and coming to a fatal stand, was per- 
forated by a slug from my “Marlin.” Not wishing to 
earry it all day, it was left with Pierre and Louis to 
be taken to camp. By three o'clock, after a long and 
laborious march and securing nothing but a solitary 
ptarmigan, my brother and I reached the bottom of the 
bay and there discovered the mouth of a large river 
which flowed into it. We would gladly have stayed 
some time in this vicinity, but as the day was already 
