They had been unsuccessful, having killed only two deer since that time, and two of them were very sick.

A little below this island is a larger one on which we camped, and administered Rush's pills to the sick." The illness of the party continued for several days, and not much progress was made down-stream.

Having camped, on the twenty-seventh of September, in the Kooskooskee River, at a place where plenty of good timber was found, preparations for building five canoes were begun.

From this time to the fifth of October, all the men capable of labor were employed in preparing the canoes.

The health of the party gradually recruited, though they still suffered severely from want of food; and, as the hunters had but little success in procuring game, they were obliged on the second to kill one of their horses.