The residents have to send nearly the same distance for their fish and on this service horse-sledges are used.

Nets are daily set in Pine Island Lake which occasionally procure some fine sturgeon, tittameg and trout, but not more than sufficient to supply the officers' table.
December 1.
This day was so remarkably fine that we procured another set of observations for the dip of the needle in the open air; the instrument being placed firmly on a rock the results gave 83 degrees 14 minutes 22 seconds.

The change produced by reversing the face of the instrument was 12 degrees 50 minutes 55 seconds.
There had been a determined thaw during the last three days.

The ice on the Saskatchewan River and some parts of the lake broke up and the travelling across either became dangerous.

On this account the absence of Wilks, one of our men, caused no small anxiety.