Our tents were scarcely pitched before we were assailed by a heavy squall and rain, which was succeeded by a violent gale from west-north-west which thrice overset the tents during the night.

The wind blew with equal violence on the following day and the sea rolled furiously upon the beach.

The Canadians had now an opportunity of witnessing the effect of a storm upon the sea and the sight increased their desire of quitting it.
Our hunters were sent out and saw many deer but the flatness of the country defeated their attempts to approach them; they brought however a few unfledged geese.

As there was no appearance of increasing our stock of provision the allowance was limited to a handful of pemmican and a small portion of portable soup to each man per day.

The thermometer this afternoon stood to 41 degrees.