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bodies, and which was the greatest treasure next to a gun and ammunition they could possess. The latter, though frequent and anxious consultations were held as to the means of procuring them, they could not obtain. A canoe was a desideratum they could more easily supply, and had they not succeeded in getting one on the spot, they had formed a plan of proceeding as far as Rock House on foot (about 150 miles) and there, by taking to the woods on the opposite or north bank, to make observations undiscovered where and how the canoes lay, and then cross over in the night by swimming and creeping on all fours through the shallows, and so secure a canoe. A small canoe, however, which lay neglected on the beach by the sea side was fixed upon to be taken; and having got together their few necessaries, their net and their small stock of provisions, they stole out of their place of confinement in the dead of the night of the 30^th of September. M^r Frobisher carried what they had to the river side, and the two men silently got the canoe over a neck of land into the river. They then embarked, and, committing themselves to the mercy

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