We perceived from the direction of this lake that considerable labour would have been spared if we had continued our course yesterday, instead of striking off at the guide's suggestion, as the bottom of this lake cannot be far separated from either Hunter's Lake or the one to the westward of it.

The chief and all the Indians went off to hunt accompanied by Pierre St.Germain the interpreter.

They returned at night bringing some meat and reported that they had put the carcasses of several reindeer en cache.

These were sent for early next morning and, as the weather was unusually warm, the thermometer at noon being 77 degrees, we remained stationary all day that the women might prepare the meat for keeping by stripping the flesh from the bones and drying it in the sun over a slow fire.

The hunters were again successful and by the evening we had collected the carcasses of seventeen deer.