At last, however, at sunset on the fifth day, they discovered on the ice the remains of an elk's carcass on which the wolves had left a little flesh.

From these elk bones a meal of strong and excellent soup was soon prepared, and the men's bodies thrilled with new life.
[Footnote 14: Chocolate from St.Domingue (Haiti) was a favourite form of portable nutriment among the French Canadians, who also provided a means of subsistence for long journeys called _praline_.

This was made of roasted Indian corn on which sugar had been sprinkled.

It was a most nourishing food, as well as being an agreeable sweet-meat.] "Want had lost his dominion over us.

At noon we saw the horns of a red deer, standing in the snow, on the river.