The tracks of foxes, wolves, wolverines and martens were very numerous.

The people employed in carrying meat set traps on their way out and take possession of their captures at their return, for which they receive a sum from the Company proportioned to the value of the fur.
In the evening we crossed the Goose Lake which is a little longer than Swan Lake and afterwards the river Sepanach, a branch of the Saskatchewan forming an island extending thirty miles above and forty below Cumberland House.

We turned to the westward on the Root River which enters the Sepanach and halted on its banks, having made in direct distance not more than twenty miles since the 23rd.
We passed the Shoal Lake on the 25th and then marched twelve miles through woods and swamps to a hunting tent of the Indians.

It was situated in a grove of large poplars and would have been no unpleasant residence if we could have avoided the smoke.

A heavy gale from the westward with snow confined us for several days to this tent.