218 JOURXEY TO THE SHORES 



We were detained on the 8th by a northerly 

 gale, which blew violently throughout the day, 

 attended by fog and rain. Some of the men went 

 out to hunt, but they saw no other animal than a 

 white wolf, which could not be approached. The 

 fresh meat being expended, a little pemmican 

 was served out this evening. 



The gale abated on the morning of the 9th ; 

 and the sea, which it had raised, having greatly 

 subsided, we embarked at seven A.M., and after 

 paddling three or four miles, opened Sir J. A. 

 Gordon's Bay, into which we penetrated thirteen 

 miles, and then discovered from the summit of a 

 hill that it would be vain to proceed in this direc- 

 tion, in search of a passage out of the inlet. 



Our breakfast diminished our provision to two 

 bags of pemmican, and a single meal of dried 

 meat. The men began to apprehend absolute 

 want of food, and we had to listen to their gloomy 

 forebodings of the deer entirely quitting the coast 

 m a few days. As we were embarking, however, 

 a large bear was discovered on the opposite 

 shore, which we had the good fortune to kill ; and 

 the sight of this fat meat relieved their fears for 

 the present. Dr. Richardson found in the 

 stomach of this animal the remains of a seal, 

 several marmots (arciomys Richardso7mJ, a large 

 quantity of the liquorice root of 



