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A JOURNEY TO THE SHORES 



health, after an absence of nearly five months, during which time I 

 had travelled one thousand one hundred and four miles, on snow 

 shoes, and had no other covering at night, in the woods, than a 

 blanket and deer-skin, with the thermometer frequently at — 40°, 

 and once at — 57°; and sometimes passing two or three days with- 

 out tasting food. 



