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A SLEDGE PARTY. 
accompanied by a second^ set of footprints, evidently be¬ 
longing to a young one of the same species, and about 
as large as a middle-sized reindeer’s. Both impressions 
also were marked as if by hair growing from the pastern 
joint, for behind the hoof was a line brushed in the 
snow. (32) 
«To-day Hans brought in another hare he had shot. 
He saw seven reindeer in a large valley off Bedevilled 
Reach, and wounded one of them. This looks pro¬ 
mising for our winter commissariat. 
«October 10, Monday.—Our depot party has been 
out twenty days, and it is time they were back: their 
provisions must have run very low, for I enjoined 
them to leave every pound at the depot they could 
spare. I am going out with supplies to look after them. 
I take four of our best Newfoundlanders, now well 
broken, in our lightest sledge; and Blake will accom¬ 
pany me with his skates. We have not hands enough 
to equip a sledge party, and the ice is too unsound for 
us to attempt to ride with a large team. The thermo¬ 
meter is still four degrees above zero.” 
