the thick ice; and these fish, coming to the holes in thousands
to breathe, are thrown out with hand-nets upon the ice, where they
become in a few minutes frozen quite hard, so that, if you wish it, you
may break them in half like a rotten stick. The cattle are fed upon
these fish during the winter months. But it has been proved--which is
very strange--that if, after they have been frozen for twenty-four hours
or more, you put these fish into water and gradually thaw them as you do
the meat, they will recover and swim about again as well as ever. To
proceed, however, with our history.

Mr Campbell found that, after all his expenses, he had still three
hundred pounds left, and this money he left in the Quebec Bank, to use
as he might find necessary. His expenditure had been very great.
First, there was the removal of so large a family, and the passage out;
then he had procured at Liverpool a large quantity of cutlery and tools,
furniture, etcetera, all of which articles were cheaper there than at
Quebec. At Quebec he had also much to purchase: all the most expensive
portion of his house; such as windows ready glazed, stoves, boarding for
floors, cupboards, and partitions; salt provisions, crockery of every
description, two small waggons ready to be put together, several casks
of nails, and a variety of things which it would be too tedious to
mention. Procuring these, with the expenses of living, had taken away
all his money, except the three hundred pounds I have mentioned.

It was on the 13th of May that the embarkation took place, and it was
not until the afternoon that all was prepared, and Mrs Campbell and her
nieces were conducted down to the _bateaux_, which lay at the wharf,
with the troops already on board of them. The Governor and his
aides-de-camp, besides many other influential people of Quebec, escorted
them down, and as soon as they had paid their adieux, the word was
given, the soldiers in the _bateaux_ gave three cheers, and away they
went from the wharf into the stream. For a short time there was waving
of handkerchiefs and other tokens of good-will on the part of those who
were on the wharf; but that was soon left behind them, and the family
found themselves separated from their acquaintances and silently
listening to the measured sound of the oars, as they dropped into the
water.

And it is not to be wondered at that they were silent, for all were
occupied with their own thoughts. They called