human
I guess this settles our prospecting, boys, said Horace.
gpt
What are we to do now? Shall we go on, or--
human
Or what?
gpt
I hardly know. But here we are, without supplies, and at least a hundred and fifty miles from any place where we can get them. We all know what a hard road it is, and going back it'll be up-stream all the way, after we leave this river.
human
Do we have to go back the way we came?
gpt
Well, instead of turning up the Missanabie River when we come to it, we might go straight down it to Moose Factory, the Hudson Bay Company's post at the mouth; but if we did that, these foxes would never live till we got back to Toronto. It would be too long and hard a trip for them.
human
That settles it. We don't go that way, said Mac.
gpt
Surely we can get home in ten or twelve days the way we came, and we ought to be able to kill enough to live on during that time.
human
How many cartridges have we?