We subsequently learned that the hunters often secreted the partridges they shot and ate them unknown to the officers.

Some tripe de roche was collected which we boiled for supper with the moiety of the remainder of our deer's meat.
The men commenced cutting the willows for the construction of the raft.
As an incitement to exertion I promised a reward of three hundred livres to the first person who should convey a line across the river by which the raft could be managed in transporting the party.
MELANCHOLY AND FATAL RESULTS THEREOF.
September 29.
Strong south-east winds with fog in the morning, more moderate in the evening.

Temperature of the rapid 38 degrees.

The men began at an early hour to bind the willows in fagots for the construction of the raft, and it was finished by seven but, as the willows were green, it proved to be very little buoyant, and was unable to support more than one man at a time.

Even on this however we hoped the whole party might be transported by hauling it from one side to the other, provided a line could be carried to the other bank.