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encampments &c. or other traces signs of p canoes having passed; and all these are necessarily made more difficult to discover or trace when the snow falls, and covers every thing with one uniform and undistinguishable veil. The increasing severity of the weather not only bore hard upon them, scantily as they were provided against it, but the accumulation of the ice in the rivers threatened, and soon accomplished, the entire stoppage of their progress by water. The next legible place in the journal runs thus "River before they were expended; took 18 fish. Oct 21^t. We encamped in the … walking … Oct. 23^d. We had a heavy fall of snow; took 20 white fish. Slept on the ice, attempted to break it but it's too strong." Oct. 24^th. Clear weather, very cold, the ice not breakable"; took 17 white fish." After stopping nearly two days still hoping to get on in their canoe, it being yet an early period for the rivers to be entirely frozen up, they were forced to give up that hope, and to determine upon p[…] continue prosecute contin their dreary journey on foot. By their success in taking fish along their route hitherto, they had not entirely consumed their pemican: of this they had about at this time about two a two pounds weight and a half left, and about two handfuls of meal. In addition

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