It was then so cold that two of the party were frozen almost immediately about the face and ears.

I escaped from having the good fortune to possess a pair of gloves made of rabbits' skin with which I kept constantly chafing the places which began to be affected.

At six P.M.we arrived at the fishing-huts near Stony Island and remained the night there.

The Canadians were not a little surprised at seeing us whom they had already given up for lost--nor less so at the manner by which we had come--for they all affirmed that the lake near them was quite free from ice the day before.
December 10.
At an early hour we quitted the huts, lashed on sledges as before, with some little addition to our party; and at three hours thirty minutes P.M.
arrived at the North-West Fort on Moose-Deer Island where I was received by Mr.Smith with whom I had been acquainted at the Athabasca.

He said he partly expected me.