The crooked knife generally made of an old file, bent and tempered by heat, serves an Indian or Canadian voyager for plane, chisel, and auger.

With it the snowshoe and canoe-timbers are fashioned, the deals of their sledges reduced to the requisite thinness and polish, and their wooden bowls and spoons hollowed out.

Indeed though not quite so requisite for existence as the hatchet yet without its aid there would be little comfort in these wilds.
On the 7th we were gratified by a sight of the sun after it had been obscured for twelve days.

On this and several following days the meridian sun melted the light covering of snow or hoarfrost on the lichens which clothe the barren grounds, and rendered them so tender as to attract great herds of reindeer to our neighbourhood.

On the morning of the 10th I estimated the numbers I saw during a short walk at upwards of two thousand.