The only wood we saw for miles together consisted of pine-trees stripped of their branches and bark by this element: in other parts poplars alone were growing which we have remarked invariably to succeed the pine after a conflagration.

We walked twenty miles today but the direct distance was only sixteen.
The remains of an Indian hut were found in a deep glen and close to it was placed a pile of wood which our companions supposed to cover a deposit of provision.

Our Canadian voyagers, induced by their insatiable desire of procuring food, proceeded to remove the upper pieces and examine its contents when, to their surprise, they found the body of a female, clothed in leather, which appeared to have been recently placed there.

Her former garments, the materials for making a fire, a fishing-line, a hatchet, and a bark dish were laid beside the corpse.

The wood was carefully replaced.