pleasure of enjoying for the next six days, with the exception o! a little robin, which I ate raw all but the feathers, it raining and snowing all the time. I could not get out of the tent night or day, there being four feet of snow on and all round the tent, and snow every where you looked. The eighth day 1 bundled up my wet tent, blankets, &c., wet as they were, and made a start, but m two hours I could not have got one mile. I felt I never should ' s be able to get up m the enow, as I was so weak. I could not get above twenty yards at a spell, and then had to lay my swag down and throw away everything I had but my gun, a little powder and shot, and my blankets. I got over the mountain on the same day, and as I was walking up a little creek to camp I saw a smoke, which I hailed with joy, as it must be my mates. Went down and found them. 1 asked for some food, but they had none, and had suffered severely during the last week, having no tent all through the past week's snow — only the little fly, as I had the tent. My mates, however, went hunting, and soon found a couple of birds, which we cooked, and I had some food tho first time for a week. Started on the follow ing morning m comi>any with my mates to make for home again. We travelled all that day with out anything to eat but a magpie which we ate raw, and camped just under the foot of a very high mountain saddle, where there was a body of saow, or rather ice, three miles long and one mile wide — the handsomest sight ever I saw. As it lay m ridges of blue as clear as the ocean, you could see down several fathoms into it— a beautiful sight under other circumstances, but at that time I had no pleasure m its contemplation. We reached the top of the mountain after a hard and severe struggle, about noon, and what a sight ! Mountains of snow everywhere the eye could see. 