Our hunters went forward to Marten Lake, intending to wait for us at a place where two deer were deposited.

At nine P.M.

the temperature of the air was 63 degrees.
We resumed our march at an early hour and crossed several lakes which lay in our course as the ice enabled the men to drag their burdens on trains formed of sticks and deers' horns with more ease than they could carry them on their backs.

We were kept constantly wet by this operation as the ice had broken near the shores of the lakes but this was little regarded as the day was unusually warm, the temperature at two P.M.being at 82 1/2 degrees.

At Marten Lake we joined the canoe party and encamped with them.