We complied with the custom from whence it derives its name and soon after landing upon Sail Island prepared breakfast.

In the meantime our boatmen cut down and rigged a new mast, the old one having been thrown overboard at the mouth of Steel River, where it ceased to be useful.

We left Sail Island with a fair wind and soon afterwards arrived at a depot situated on Swampy Lake where we received a supply of mouldy pemmican.* Mr.Calder and his attendant were the only tenants of this cheerless abode, and their only food was the wretched stuff with which they supplied us, the lake not yielding fish at this season.
(*Footnote.

Buffalo meat, dried and pounded and mixed with melted fat.) JACK RIVER.
After a short delay at this post we sailed through the remainder of Swampy Lake and slept at the Lower Portage in Jack River; the distance sailed today being sixteen miles and a half.
Jack River is only eight miles long but, being full of bad rapids, it detained us considerably.

At seven in the morning of the 24th we crossed the Long Portage where the woods, having caught fire in the summer, were still smoking.