They became trapped on an island by rising flood waters and were at the point of starvation before being rescued by later arrivals. Still no sign of the company. We are all beginning to feel very weak. If they don't come up soon it will be very serious work for us. Took our last meal this morning, hardly, a tea cup full of thin soup made with a bit of beef about the size of your hand, a thin piece of cake about the same size.
Leader is very bad.
The last of the Overlanders reached Tete Jaune Cache on September 16. At Tete Jaune their trails diverged. One group decided to float down the Fraser to Fort George and from there head south to Quesnel. Canoes were made from dug-out cottonwood logs and from oxen hides. For the first 5 or 6 days of travel down the river no serious obstacles were encountered.