and Great Slave Lake when I met a smallish man carrying an enormous pack. It was Hornby. He and a partner W. Critchell Bullock were on their way to spend a Winter in the Barren Lands. I think Hornby was possessed by one ambition—a trip overland from Great Slave Lake to Hudson’s Bay, via the Thelon River. As far back as 1919 he had talked to me of this 700 or 800 mile trip. He intended to rely on his rifle, taking only tea and salt. It did not seem an impossible journey, but was to cost him and two partners their lives. It must be remembered that the Barren Lands across which the party intended to travel, was an enormous field of rock covered with caribou ? where, caribou—not Wood Caribou which are a fairly large variety, but
