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ing, we left our sleeping-place at 6 a.m. Soon 

 afterwards we saw two Eskimo tents on the ex- 

 treme point of the island ; but as the inmates did 

 not show themselves, and we did not wish to be 

 delayed, we proceeded onwards without disturbing 

 them, and crossed the mouth of Harrowby Bay. 

 At 4 P.M. Baillie's Islands came in sight, and we 

 held on our course between them and the main. 

 Some Eskimos coming off here, we learned from 

 them that a large river falls into the bottom of 

 Liverpool Bay; and we had previously received 

 the same information from the party which we 

 saw on the 8th. Eskimos inhabit the banks 

 of this river, but the families residing at Cape 

 Bathurst do not go so far. The river can be no 

 other than the " Begh'ula tesse " of the Hare In- 

 dians, who frequent Fort Good Hope. These 

 Indians say that it is a large river, abounding in 

 the fish from which it is named ("toothless fish," 

 Salmo Mackenzii) ; that it rises near Smith's Bay 

 of Great Bear Lake, and is eight or ten days' 

 journey to the eastward of Fort Good Hope over- 

 land (one hundred miles or thereabout). They 

 also said, that some years ago they fell in with a 

 party of Eskimos who were hunting on its banks, 

 and, a quarrel ensuing, several of the latter were 

 killed. 



We could not find a convenient landing-place 



