We then crossed some sandhills and encamped amidst a few small pines, having walked thirteen miles.
The comfort of a good fire made us soon insensible to the fatigue we had experienced through the day in marching over the rugged stones whose surface was rendered slippery by the frost.

The thermometer at seven P.M.
stood at 27 degrees.
RETURN TO THE WINTER QUARTERS OF FORT ENTERPRISE.
We set off at sunrise next morning and our provision being expended pushed on as fast as we could to Fort Enterprise where we arrived at eight P.M., almost exhausted by a harassing day's march of twenty-two miles.

A substantial supper of reindeer steaks soon restored our vigour.
We had the happiness of meeting our friends Mr.Back and Mr.Hood who had returned from their excursion on the day succeeding that on which we set out; and I received from them the following account of their journey.
They proceeded up the Winter River to the north end of the Little Marten Lake and then the guide, being unacquainted with the route by water to the Copper-Mine River, proposed that the canoe should be left.

Upon this they ascended the loftiest hill in the neighbourhood to examine whether they could discover any large lakes or water communication in the direction where the guide described the river to be.

They only saw a small rivulet which was too shallow for the canoe and also wide of the course and, as they perceived the crew would have to carry it over a rugged hilly track, they judiciously decided on leaving it and proceeding forward on foot.