When this material is wanting the reindeer lichen and other mosses that grow in profusion on the gravelly acclivities of the hills are used as substitutes.

Three more of the hunters arrived with meat this evening which supply came very opportunely as our nets were unproductive.
At eight P.M.a faint Aurora Borealis appeared to the southward, the night was cold, the wind strong from North-West.
We were detained some time in the following morning before the fishing-nets, which had sunk in the night, could be recovered.
After starting we first crossed the Orkney Lake, then a portage which brought us to Sandy Lake and here we missed one of our barrels of powder which the steersman of the canoe then recollected had been left the day before.

He and two other men were sent back to search for it in the small canoe.

The rest of the party proceeded to the portage on the north side of the Grizzly-Bear Lake, where the hunters had made a deposit of meat, and there encamped to await their return which happened at nine P.M.

with the powder.