46 MUSK OXEN AND DEER- KILLED. [October, 



absolutely necessary however, to prevent the snow blind- 

 ness, cold and cheerless as the nights are." 



It is rather a curious coincidence that I should have 

 altered my time of travelling on the same day, but with 

 very different result, and our temperature at that mo- 

 ment five degrees lower. We were in 77 N., and he in 

 76 10', but we experienced a bright, warm sun, and our 

 progress was easterly : evidently we enjoyed a far supe- 

 rior climate. He had the luxuries of game and the occa- 

 sional sight of vegetation ; not so with us ! and imme- 

 diately I notice he killed two musk-oxen, cow and calf, 

 and not long after a deer. I cannot but pity them : 

 they could not spare the fuel to cook them ! 



" Skinned and cut up the musk-oxen, one weighing 

 1501bs., the other 50 Ibs. ; buried a part of them for 

 our return." " The coast trending N.N.W. and about 

 one hundred and fifty feet high, fronted by flat beaches, 

 terminating in hummocks of pressed-up gravel, or rather 

 soil, which is now very abundant (stones are scarce) ; 

 indeed we are obliged generally to build our beacons 

 of gravel or earth. Osborn shot a deer today, a doe, 

 weighing about 60 or 70 Ibs., which was divided among 

 the sledge crews. The musk-calf shot yesterday was very 

 good, no taste whatever of musk about it. We find the 

 fire however insufficient to cook it." 



On the 16th of May he reached a remarkable cape, 

 about six hundred feet high, on which a large cairn was 

 erected and the Union hoisted, but, as this was within 

 Governor Kellett's province, it was merely cutting off 

 some of his fair proportions. It was therefore decided, to 

 appease him, that it should bear his name. The extraordi- 



