35):-- "I [Father de Crepieul] set out on the 16th of January, 1674, from the vicinity of Lake St.John, near the Saguenay River, with an Algonkin captain and two Frenchmen.

We started after Mass, and walked five long leagues on snowshoes with much trouble, because the snow was soft and made our snowshoes very heavy.

At the end of five leagues, we found ourselves on a lake four or five leagues long all frozen over, on which the wind caused great quantities of snow to drift, obscuring the air and preventing us from seeing where we are going.

After walking another league and a half with great difficulty our strength began to fail.

The wind, cold, and snow were so intolerable that they compelled us to retrace our steps a little, to cut some branches of fir which might in default of bark serve to build a cabin.