Some beds of grayish compact gypsum were exposed on the sides of the hills.
The next morning after filling some casks with salt for our use during winter we embarked to return, and had descended the river a few miles when, turning round a point, we perceived a buffalo plunge into the river before us.

Eager to secure so valuable a prize we instantly opened a fire upon him from four muskets and in a few minutes he fell, but not before he had received fourteen balls.

The carcass was towed to the bank and the canoe speedily laden with meat.

After this piece of good fortune we descended the stream merrily, our voyagers chanting their liveliest songs.

On arrival at the mouth of the river we found that our nets had not produced more than enough to supply a scanty meal to the men whom we had left behind, but this was now of little importance as the acquisition of meat we had made would enable us to proceed without more delay to Slave Lake.