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fashion. Our clothing for night and day wasnearly the same; and the cold was so intensethat, exclusively of warm woolen clothes, wewere obliged to wrap ourselves continually inbeaver blankets, or at least in ox skins, whichthe traders call buffalo robes. At night we madeat the head of the Ma-our first encampmentligne, where one of our parties was fishing withbut very indifferent success.On the following evening we encamped atthe mouth of the same river. The snow wasfour feet deep, and we found it impossibleto keep ourselves warm even with the aid of alarge fire.On the fourth day as well of the month asof our journey, we arrived at CumberlandHouse. Mr. Cockings received us with muchhospitality, making us partake of all he had,which however was but little. Himself and hismen subsisted wholly upon fish, in which sturgeonbore the largest proportion, and this wascaught near the house. The next morning Itook leave of Mr. Frobisher, who is certainlythe first man that ever went the same distancein such a climate and upon snowshoes to convoya friend.From Cumberland House I pursued a westerlycourse on the ice, following the southernbank of Sturgeon Lake till I crossed the neck ofland by which alone it is separated from thegreat river Pasquayah, or Sascatchiwaine. Inthe evening I encamped on the north bank of258