[Gutenberg 16864] • Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory / Volume II.

[Gutenberg 16864] • Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory / Volume II.

Excerpt from Notes of a Twenty-Five Years Service, Vol. 2 of 2: In the Hudson's Bay Territory

Hitherto we had found much snow on the ground, and our progress in consequence was very slow. Our hardy horses subsisting on whatever they could pick during the night, or when we halted for our meals, began to falter, so that we were under the necessity of stopping to allow them to feed wherever any bare ground appeared.