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from the natives there. I at once set to work collecting together enough dogs for a team, picking up one here and another there to take me to Peujina, thinking in all probability the Ghijigha sleds were land bound and would yet be sometime in coming in.

As the men reported the land almost bare of snow below Peujina. The next morning the sleds returned from Myau with a note from Mr. Norton saying that when the horse meat arrived they had the last piece of meat in the kettle, and had all become so weak on the deer meat as scarcely to be able to get around. The traps had failed and no geese had come. On the morning of the 8th I had collected together the frames of 8 animals that might have been called dogs and a man who was greatly in need of the horses tail for a fish net, gave me forty grouse for that article, which I would use for dog feed. and I was ready to start when Illia drove up with Lieut Baxter, and two of the men who had walked up on their snow shoes. They brought me the surprising information that the horse meat would only last the party two days longer. As there was 500 pounds of it, and it was very fat. I had expected it to last 12 or 15 days. You can judge how well it was relished, and form some idea of what men will eat when reduced to a single article of food where that amount of meat only lasted 10 men 6 days.