As we did not after this period experience any deficiency of food during this journey they worked extremely well and never again reflected upon us as they had done before for rashly bringing them into an inhospitable country where the means of subsistence could not be procured.
Several blue fish resembling the grayling were caught in a stream which flows out of Hunter's Lake.

It is remarkable for the largeness of the dorsal fin and the beauty of its colours.
August 14.
Having crossed the Hunter's Portage we entered the Lake of the same name in latitude 64 degrees 6 minutes 47 seconds North, longitude 113 degrees 25 minutes 00 seconds West; but soon quitted it by desire of the Indian guide and diverged more to the eastward that we might get into the line upon which our hunters had gone.

This was the only consideration that could have induced us to remove to a chain of small lakes connected by long portages.

We crossed three of these and then were obliged to encamp to rest the men.

The country is bare of wood except a few dwarf birch bushes which grow near the borders of the lakes, and here and there a few stunted pines, and our fuel principally consisted of the roots of decayed pines which we had some difficulty to collect in sufficient quantity for cooking.