The anguish this intelligence occasioned may be conceived but it is beyond my power to describe it.

Impressed however with the necessity of taking it forward, even in the state these men represented it to be, we urgently desired them to fetch it, but they declined going and the strength of the officers was inadequate to the task.

To their infatuated obstinacy on this occasion a great portion of the melancholy circumstances which attended our subsequent progress may perhaps be attributed.

The men now seemed to have lost all hope of being preserved and all the arguments we could use failed in stimulating them to the least exertion.

After consuming the remains of the bones and horns of the deer we resumed our march, and in the evening reached a contracted part of the lake which, perceiving it to be shallow, we forded and encamped on the opposite side.
Heavy rain began soon afterwards and continued all night.