The race now continued by night as well as by day, only an hour or two of rest being snatched at a time.

During these days John Ball babbled ceaselessly of Dolores, and great beasts, and the endless cavern; and now the beasts began taking the form of strange people whose eyes gleamed from out of masses of fur, and who had hands, and flung spears.

On the eighth day the madman sank back into his old lethargy.

On the fourth day after that the three adventurers, worn and exhausted, reached the shore of Lake Nipigon.
Thirty miles across the lake was Wabinosh House, and it was decided that Mukoki and Rod should leave for assistance, while Wabigoon remained with John Ball.

The two rolled themselves in their blankets immediately after supper, and after three hours' sleep were awakened by the young Indian.