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of its decay, and because no ice of last years form- 

 ation was hanging on the rocks." Detention Har- 

 bour is stated to be a secure anchorage, sheltered 

 from every wind ; but it does not appear to be no- 

 ticed on the chart. 



28th. — Discovered, to their great mortification, 

 that two bags of pemmican had become mouldy ; 

 that the beef was scarcely eatable ; but it was not 

 so much the quality as the diminution that was the 

 cause of uneasiness. A small vein of galena was 

 discovered traversing gneiss rocks, but they had no 

 means of smelting it for balls. The next day they 

 crossed the mouth of a bay filled with ice, and on 

 the 



30th — Another bay, which they named Arctic 

 Sound, with a river at the bottom of it, to which 

 Franklin gave the name of Hood, "as a small tri- 

 bute to the memory of our lamented friend and 

 companion. " Their provision being now reduced to 

 eight clays' consumption, it became necessary to seek 

 a supply. The hunters were therefore sent on shore. 



August 1st. — The hunters returned with two 

 small deer and a brown bear. They were now, and 

 in point of fact had been some^ time, coasting and 

 landing on the shore of a very wide and deep gulf, 

 with numerous inlets issuing in various directions, 

 with creeks and rivers branching out from and 

 others running into them. In the present situation 

 of the party, living from hand to mouth, and with- 



