The surface of the ice, being honeycombed by the recent rains, presented innumerable sharp points which tore our shoes and lacerated the feet at every step.

The poor dogs too marked their path with their blood.
NAVIGATION OF THE COPPER-MINE RIVER.
In the evening the atmosphere became clear and at five P.M.we reached the rapid by which Point Lake communicates with Red-Rock Lake.

This rapid is only one hundred yards wide and we were much disappointed at finding the Copper-Mine River such an inconsiderable stream.

The canoes descended the rapid but the cargoes were carried across the peninsula and placed again on the sledges as the next lake was still frozen.

We passed an extensive arm branching to the eastward, and encamped just below it on the western bank among spruce pines, having walked six miles of direct distance.