Having found that he got on very well and was walking even faster than Mr.Hood could follow in his present debilitated state, I pushed forward to stop the rest of the party who had got out of sight during the delay which the discussion respecting the canoe had occasioned.

I accidentally passed the body of the men and followed the tracks of two persons who had separated from the rest until two P.M.when, not seeing any person, I retraced my steps, and on my way met Dr.Richardson who had also missed the party whilst he was employed gathering tripe de roche, and we went back together in search of them.

We found they had halted among some willows where they had picked up some pieces of skin and a few bones of deer that had been devoured by the wolves last spring.

They had rendered the bones friable by burning and eaten them as well as the skin; and several of them had added their old shoes to the repast.

Peltier and Vaillant were with them, having left the canoe which they said was so completely broken by another fall as to be rendered incapable of repair and entirely useless.