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nor until they had passed Rock House, that they durst make the least noise. There was not indeed much chance of their meeting with interruption, as at that late period of the season every one had sought, or was on the way to, his winter-quarters; yet the meeting with a straggling hunter, or a fishing party, might have been as fatal to the success of their escape as the rencounter of an entire 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 part of the Riviere du Diable as the Canadians call what is termed Hill River by the Hudson's Bay people. Their labour was excessively hard up the seven or eight strong rapids immediately above 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,

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