Whilst we were seated round the fire, singeing the deer-skin for supper, we were rejoiced by the unexpected entrance of Augustus.

He had followed quite a different course from ours and the circumstance of his having found his way through a part of the country he had never been in before must be considered a remarkable proof of sagacity.

The unusual earliness of this winter became manifest to us from the state of things at this spot.

Last year at the same season and still later there had been very little snow on the ground and we were surrounded by vast herds of reindeer; now there were but few recent tracks of these animals and the snow was upwards of two feet deep.

Winter River was then open, now it was frozen two feet thick.
When I arose the following morning my body and limbs were so swollen that I was unable to walk more than a few yards.