quarter.
It continued showery all night, nor on the morning of the 16th was there any appearance of a favourable change.

At nine a steady and heavy rain setting in we remained stationary.
The floods in the Rufus had obliged us to make a complete circuit of the lake, so that we had now approached that little stream to within six miles from the eastward.

Our friend Nadbuck, therefore, thinking that we were about to leave the neighbourhood, rejoined the party.

With him about eighty natives came to see us, and encamped close to our tents; forty-five men, sixteen women, and twenty-six children.

I sent some of the former out to hunt, but they were not successful.
Amongst the natives there were two strangers from Laidley's Ponds, the place to which we were bound.