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The Journey to the Polar Sea

CHAPTER 2
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In the evening we left the Saskatchewan and entered the Little River, one of the two streams by which Pine Island Lake discharges its waters.

We advanced today fourteen miles and a quarter.

On the 22nd the weather was extremely cold and stormy and we had to contend against a strong head wind.

The spray froze as it fell and the oars were so loaded with ice as to be almost unmanageable.

The length of our voyage this day was eleven miles.
CUMBERLAND HOUSE.
The following morning was very cold; we embarked at daylight and pulled across a part of Pine Island Lake about three miles and a half to Cumberland House.


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