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We also sent a number of broken axes to 

 Slave Lake to be repaired. The dog that 

 came to us on the 22& of October, and had 

 become very familiar, followed the party. 

 We were in hopes that it might prove of 

 some use in dragging their loads, but we 

 afterwards learned that on the evening after 

 their departure from the house, they had 

 the cruelty to kill and eat it, although they 

 had no reason to apprehend a scarcity of 

 provision. A dog is considered to be deli- 

 cate eating by the voyagers. 



The mean temperature of the air for No- 

 vember was — 0°. 7. The greatest heat ob- 

 observed was 25° above, and the least 31° 

 below, zero. 



On the 1st of December the sky was 

 clear, a slight appearance of stratus only 

 being visible near the horizon ; but a kind 

 of snow fell at intervals in the forenoon, its 

 particles so minute as to be observed only 

 in the sunshine. Towards noon the snow 

 became more apparent, and the two limbs 

 of a prismatic arch were visible, one on each 

 side of the sun near its place in the heavens, 

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