The delay however enabled us to obtain some lunar observations.

The wind having subsided we left our resting place the following morning, crossed the remainder of the lake, and in the afternoon arrived at Muddy Lake which is very appropriately named as it consists merely of a few channels winding amongst extensive mudbanks which are overflowed during the spring floods.

We landed at an Indian tent which contained two numerous families amounting to thirty souls.
These poor creatures were badly clothed and reduced to a miserable condition by the whooping-cough and measles.

At the time of our arrival they were busy in preparing a sweating-house for the sick.

This is a remedy which they consider, with the addition of singing and drumming, to be the grand specific for all diseases.