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of Mr. Hearne having here given the 

 Indians who accompanied him some of that 

 liquor. Fish is not found here. 



We walked next day over a more level 

 country, but it was strewed with large 

 stones. These galled our feet a good deal ; 

 we contrived, however, to wade through the 

 snow at a tolerably quick pace until five 

 P.M., having proceeded twelve miles and 

 a half. We had made to-day our proper 

 course, south by east, which we could not 

 venture upon doing before, for fear of falling 

 again upon some branch of the Contwoy-to. 

 Some deer were seen in the morning, but 

 the hunters failed of killing any, and in the ' 

 afternoon we fell into the track of a large 

 herd, which had passed the day before, but 

 did not overtake them. In consequence of 

 this want of success we had no breakfast, 

 and but a scanty supper ; but we allayed 

 the pangs of hunger by eating pieces of 

 singed hide. A little tripe de roche* was 

 also obtained. These would have satisfied 



* The different kinds of gyrophora, are termed in- 

 discriminately by the voyagers tripe de roche. 



