250 . ACROSS THE SUB-ARCTICS OF CANAD 
thus was completed a canoe and snowshoe journey of 
three thousand two hundred miles. 
I need hardly say that the telegraph office was soon 
found, and messages despatched to anxious friends, who, 
having heard nothing from us for some months, had 
begun to entertain grave fears for our safety. Thirteen 
hundred miles more of travel by rail and we were home 
again, after an absence of just eight months. 
