Wednesday Nov 2. To Mirror Landing We started early in the forenoon with a team which carried our baggage, while we walked as at our more comfortable. It started to snow soon after we left and continued to fall all day making about 5 miles. The road was a fair one with bridges on the creeks and followed the river rather closely. Growing chinooks, Poplar woods with some Bunkian pine and spruce. Some wrecked tracks in several places. The river was running ice all day. The river has been dredged and built up with wing dams to facilitate navigation. But the river carries so little water that the Northland Ball can ascend it only when light and the water is right. The Midnight Sun has never been up. The old Athabasca went up to the Lake only once, ni very high water The steamer on the Lesser Slave lake, the Northland Right Thursday Nov 3. Mirror Landing The Northland Ball arrived during the forenoon with J.K. Cornwallis on board. He is to lay up the steamer here as usual and go down in small boats, but it is doubtful if we can get one large enough to carry us. Snow fell during the day