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Streights of La Maire
Janry 1769
For two hours now it had snowd almost incessantly so we had little hopes of seeing any of the three alive about 12 however to our great Joy we heard a shouting on which myself & 4 more went out immediately & found it to be the Seaman who had wakd almost starvd to death & come a little way from where he lay. Him I sent back to the fire & proceeded by his direction to find the other two Richmond was upon his leggs but not able to walk the other lay on the ground as insensible as a stone we immediately calld all hands from the fire & attempted by all the means we could contrive to bring them down but finding it absolutely impossible, the road was so bad & the night so dark that we could scarcely ourselves get on nor did we without many Falls we would then have lit a fire upon the spot but the snow on the ground as well as that which continualy fell renderd that as impracticable as the other & to bring fire from the other place was also impossible from the quantity of snow which fell every moment from the branches of the trees so we were forc'd to content ourselves
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