These arrangements being completed we prepared to cross the lake.
Mr.Weeks provided Dr.Richardson and I with a cariole each and we set out at eleven A.M.on the 15th for Moose-Deer Island.

Our party consisted of Belanger who had charge of a sledge laden with the bedding and drawn by two dogs, our two cariole men, Benoit and Augustus.

Previous to our departure we had another conference with Akaitcho who, as well as the rest of his party, bade us farewell with a warmth of manner rare among the Indians.
The badness of Belanger's dogs and the roughness of the ice impeded our progress very much and obliged us to encamp early.

We had a good fire made of the driftwood which lines the shores of this lake in great quantities.

The next day was very cold.