The chief and all the Indians went off to hunt, accompanied by Pierre St.Germain, the interpreter.

They returned at night, bringing some meat, and reported that they had put the carcases of several rein-deer _en cache_.

These were sent for early next morning, and as the weather was unusually warm, the thermometer, at noon, being 77 deg., we remained stationary all day, that the women might prepare the meat for keeping, by stripping the flesh from the bones and drying it in the sun over a slow fire.

The hunters were again successful, and by the evening we had collected the carcases of seventeen deer.

As this was a sufficient store to serve us until we arrived at Winter Lake, the chief proposed that he and his hunters should proceed to that place and collect some provision against our arrival.