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further, deposited a cask with bread, pork, cocoa and sugar 

 for two days' consumption. The party slept well. 



22d. Wind S.W. with mild hazy weather. Having ad- 

 vanced two miles, on the south side stood a storehouse ; 

 William Cull stated that no such building was there last 

 year ; it appeared newly erected, and its form circular, and 

 covered round with some deer skins, and some carcasses left 

 a little way from it ; two poles were stuck in the ice close 

 to the water, as if canoes had lately been there. Four 

 miles from this passed an island and rounded a bay, two 

 miles beyond its western extremity, — on a projecting rock 

 were placed several stag's horns : William Cull nov/ in- 

 formed me it was at this place he had examined the store- 

 houses mentioned in his narrative, but now no vestige of 

 them appeared ; there was, however, ample room cleared of 

 wood for such a building as is described to have stood, and 

 a few hundred yards off was the frame of a wigwam still 

 standing ; close to this was a deer-skin hanging to a tree, 

 and farther on a trope with the name of " Rousell." On 

 the south bank, a little lower down, also stood the remains 

 of a wigwam, close to which Cull pointed out the other 

 storehouse to have been ; a quarter of a mile below, on the 

 same side, a river, considerable in appearance, emptied 

 itself into this; directly against its entrance stands an 

 island, well wooded : we continued on four miles, and then 

 the party stopped for the night ; Cull accompanied me two 

 miles farther, and returned at sun set. During this day's 

 journey, at intervals, we could discern a track which bore 

 the appearance of a man's foot going upwards. One of the 

 sledges fell into the water, but it fortunately happening to 

 be a shoal part nothing was lost. Our distance made good 

 to-day we allow to be twelve miles, and the river open from 

 the last overfall with scarcely enough ice attached to the 

 bank to admit the sledges to pass on, and there are banks 

 and fences in such places as the natives find it necessary to 

 obstruct the landing of the deer, some of these extending 



