Just as we had encamped we were delighted to see four of the hunters arrive with the flesh of two rein-deer.

This seasonable supply, though only sufficient for this evening's and the next day's consumption, instantly revived the spirits of our companions, and they immediately forgot all their cares.

As we did not, after this period, experience any deficiency of food during this journey, they worked extremely well, and never again reflected upon us as they had done before, for rashly bringing them into an inhospitable country, where the means of subsistence could not be procured.
Several blue fish, resembling the grayling, were caught in a stream which flows out of Hunter's Lake.

It is remarkable for the largeness of the dorsal fin and the beauty of its colours.
_August 14_ .-- Having crossed the Hunter's Portage, we entered the Lake of the same name, in latitude 64 deg.

6' 47" N., longitude 113 deg.