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Show A KIGHT ON- IBP MUD- FLATS* t . tW ' bordering the eastern side of the lake, without a bush or a shrub, to shelter them, froin its fury. . Lieutenant Gunnison says-:-" The skiff was. dragged for half a mile into three inches watpr^ when the wind suddenly shifted to the n6r. tb, and bletf a tremendous gale. Our course was north, rind we endeavoured to force our way with * four men wading by the sides of the boat, but the gale was too powerful for them, and drove the whole company off the course, so that, by th$ time we were in one foot water, wetwere obliged tb stop 9 the spray dashed over the boat in showers ; the raid and JialL caiae down inrtorrents;- and soon all . hands were drenched to the skku The mist shut down upon us, and we- cbuld - only see a few steps around. It'was . nearly sunset, and rapidly growing dark. The menlbeoaxro bewildered, and despaired of reaching - capip, de- * claring that they could not survive tifl morning. The snow began to fall fast and the air to become more chilly and raw. Our course was now completely lost, tfqd it was rapidly becoming too dark to read the compass much longer. We therefore. determined . to turn back for the mud- flat from which we had started, so " that we might at least have solid ground upon which to pass the night. After wading and dragging our boat for about a mile, We came upon our trail of yesterday. . The men becoming . too stiff and benumbed , tp proceed any farther, we managed to turn the skiff up/ on its side, as a shelter from the piercing wind, and laying . down . the* oars and thwarts to keep us as much as possible out of the* mud, ( which was about four inches deep,) we" huddled together behind it. In a couple of hours. the wind lulled, the skiff was turned . again upoh itp jiojtoih, the muddy boards arranged as a sort o£ platform* and we prepared for our night's lodgipg. . J placed two of the men edgeuri** on the bottom of the' boat, and crawled in alongside of them. The two extra men, '( there were five of us,) laid themselves dowji on the . lower tier, taking care to breakpoints* We had-. a bit of an. old sail, which, in turning up the skiff, had • beta well trampled in the mud, and was in rather a sorry condi- x t£ on. This. we dragged dver us as a covering frbm the snow, which, w^ s falling fast; * Although we were almost freezing,- the heat from our bodies was sufficient to melt it and cause it to trickle down upon us, to our great discomfort, ? . " About eleven o'clock, as nearly as we could judge, the snow > ceased to- fall, but the piercing wind howled over us till daylight. Nearly frozen to death,, we hailed the first , strefcka of day, and jumped cheerfully into the icy mud, pushed our boat a couple of |