As we went the snow grew deeper and we had to cut hemlock boughs for a bed on top of the snow.

It took about a half a cord of wood to last us all night, and it was a trouble to cut holes in the ice to water, for it was more than two feet thick.

Our fire kindled on the snow, would be two or three feet below on the ground, by morning.

This country was heavily timbered with cedar, or spruce and apparently very level.
One day we saw two otters coming toward us on the ice.

We shot one, but as the other gun missed fire, the other one escaped, for I could not overtake it in the woods.