26 JOURNEY TO THE SHORES 



us in ordinary times, but we were now 

 almost exhausted by slender fare and travel, 

 and our appetites had become ravenous. 

 We looked, however, with humble confi- 

 dence to the Great Author and Giver of all 

 good, for a continuance of the support which 

 had hitherto been always supplied to us at 

 our greatest need. The thermometer varied 

 to-day between 25° and 28°, The wind 

 blew fresh from the south. 



On the 18th the atmosphere was hazy, 

 but the day was more pleasant for walking 

 than usual. The country was level and 

 gravelly, and the snow very deep. We 

 went for a short time along a deeply-beaten 

 road made by the rein-deer, which turned 

 suddenly off to the south-west, a direction 

 so wide of our course that we could not 

 venture upon following it. All the small 

 lakes were frozen, and we marched across 

 those which lay in our track. We supped 

 off the tripe de roche which had been 

 gathered during our halts in the course of 

 the march. Thermometer at six P.M. 32°. 



Showers of snow fell without intermission 



