A considerable quantity of snow fell during the night.
The surrounding country was extremely rugged, the hills divided by deep ravines and the valleys covered with broken masses of rocks and stones; yet the deer fly (as it were) over these impediments with apparent ease, seldom making a false step, and springing from crag to crag with all the confidence of the mountain goat.

After passing Reindeer Lake (where the ice was so thin as to bend at every step for nine miles) we halted, perfectly satisfied with our escape from sinking into the water.

While some of the party were forming the encampment one of the hunters killed a deer, a part of which was concealed to be ready for use on our return.
This evening we halted in a wood near the canoe track after having travelled a distance of nine miles.

The wind was South-East and the night cloudy with wind and rain.
On the 24th and 25th we underwent some fatigue from being obliged to go round the lakes which lay across our route and were not sufficiently frozen to bear us.

Several rivulets appeared to empty themselves into the lakes, no animals were killed and few tracks seen.