Then he went on to the camp.
Here Winn's search for food was as unsuccessful as it had been at the hut.

He found a number of cooking utensils, battered and smoked, and discovered an old axe still sticking in the log on which it had been last used.

He also found some bits of rope and cord.

He knotted together enough of the latter to make a rude line, attached his fish-hook to it, cut a pole, dug some bait, and began to fish just above the "river-traders'" boom.

For some time he sat there, patiently, but got no bites.