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antiwe encamped. The baggage of the Indians wasdrawn by dogs, who kept pace with the womenand appeared to be under their command. Assoon as we halted the women set up the tents,which were constructed and covered like thoseof the Christinaux.The tent in which I slept contained fourteenpersons, each of whom lay with his feet to thefire, which was in the middle; but the night wasso cold that even this precaution, with the assistanceof our buffalo robes, was insufficientto keep us warm. Our supper was made on thetongues of the wild ox, or buffalo, boiled in mykettle, which was the only one in the camp.At break of day, or rather before that time,we left our encampment, the women stillpreceding us. On our march we saw but littlewood, and that only here and there and atgreat distances. We crossed two rivulets stealingalong the bottom of very deep channels,which, no doubt, are better filled in the seasonof the melting of the snow. The banks here ason the Pasquayah or Sascatchiwaine are composedof a whitish clay, mingled with sand.On the sixth of February we had a fine clearsky, but the air was exceedingly cold and bleak,no shelter from woods being afforded us oneither side. There was but little wind, andyet at times enough to cause a slight drift ofsnow. In the evening we encamped in a smallwood, of which the largest trees did not exceeda man's wrist in thickness. On the seventh we269