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brigade. Rock House they passed in the night, silently creeping up the opposite side of the stream, in which they were favoured by the uninterrupted noise of the successive rapids in that vicinity part of the Riviere du Diable as the Canadians call, what is termed Hayer's Hill River by the H B people. Their labour was excessively hard up the seven or eight strong rapids immediately above that place wh the Rock at most of which they were obliged to cross the portages with their canoe. They had understood that the next establishment of the Hudson's Bay Company, which was Logan's at Swampy Lake, had been abandoned, and they now therefore pursued their way more fearlessly, and generally when encamped at night set their net, and caught some fish.

By to encamped the reader must not understand that they had any tent, or even the advantage of a tarpawlin [tarpaulin] or sail to serve as a substitute, but that encampment is the voyageur's term for their place of nightly rest whatever their accommodations are may be. In the present instance, a small clear space, or a rising ground if possible, was found, a few branches of trees set up to windward, a fire was lit, their scanty meal taken, and each man lay down wrapped in his blanket, exposed to whatever weather the night produced. In that latidute and

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