They came to meet me when they saw me coming and Heaven
alone knows how inadequate were the words with which I tried to
thank them. We came up the hill together now, and soon the tents
were pitched out among the willows. As I watched them from the
post window busy about their new camping ground, it was with a
feeling of genuine loneliness that I realised that I should not
again be one of the little party.
Later came the reckoning, which may be summed up as follows: -
_Length of Journey_: - 576 miles from post to post (with 30 miles
additional to Ungava Bay covered later in the post yacht Lily).
_Time_: - June 27th to August 27th. Forty-three days of actual
travelling, eighteen days in camp.
_Provisions_: - 750 lbs. to begin with, 392 lbs. of which was flour.
Surplus, including gifts to Nascaupee Indians, 150 lbs., 105 lbs.
of which was flour, making the average amount consumed by each
member of the party, 57 1/2 lbs.
_Results_: - The pioneer maps of the Nascaupee and George Rivers,
that of the Nascaupee showing Seal Lake and Lake Michikamau to be
in the same drainage basin and which geographers had supposed were
two distinct rivers, the Northwest and the Nascaupee, to be one and
the same, the outlet of Lake Michikamau carrying its waters through
Seal Lake and thence to Lake Melville; with some notes by the way
on the topography, geology, flora and fauna of the country
traversed.
