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hope and to prosecute their dreary journey on foot. By their success in taking fish along their route hitherto they had not entirely consumed their pemican: of which they had about this time about two pounds weight left and about two handfuls of meal. In addition to the other effects of disease and debility M^r Frobisher had now got swelled legs. Walking across the numerous portages had been all along a painful exertion to him, and when under the necessity of traversing on foot so many hundreds of miles as yet remained to be passed before he could expect to obtain relief, it is wonderful to reflect that he supported himself as he did. In the course of their journey the weather appears to have been peculiarly against them. Before they could expect it according to the usual course of the season, they were prevented from proceeding by water by the severity of the frost; and in less than a week after, when the frost and ice would have been the most acceptable, the weather broke, and thaws and floods impeded and retarded their progress on foot, nearly as much as the ice did when in a canoe. But to continue the

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