The Indians too with whom we have since conversed upon this subject are confident that he would be able to subsist himself during the winter.

Credit on his hunting excursion today found a cap which our people recognised to belong to one of the hunters who had left us in the spring.

This circumstance produced the conviction of our being on the banks of the Copper-Mine River which all the assertions of the officers had hitherto failed in effecting with some of the party, and it had the happy consequence of reviving their spirits considerably.

We consumed the last of our deer's meat this evening at supper.
Next morning the men went out in search of dry willows and collected eight large fagots with which they formed a more buoyant raft than the former but, the wind being still adverse and strong, they delayed attempting to cross until a more favourable opportunity.

Pleased however with the appearance of this raft they collected some tripe de roche and made a cheerful supper.