It may be here observed that we proceeded in this manner throughout our route across the barren grounds.
In the afternoon we got into a more hilly country where the ground was strewed with large stones.

The surface of these was covered with lichens of the genus gyrophora which the Canadians term tripe de roche.

A considerable quantity was gathered and with half a partridge each (which we shot in the course of the day) furnished a slender supper which we cooked with a few willows dug up from beneath the snow.

We passed a comfortless night in our damp clothes but took the precaution of sleeping upon our socks and shoes to prevent them from freezing.

This plan was afterwards adopted throughout the journey.
At half-past five in the morning we proceeded and after walking about two miles came to Cracroft's River, flowing to the westward with a very rapid current over a rocky channel.