924, JOURNEY TO THE SHORES 



no outlet could be perceived but the one by which 

 we had entered. After examining, however, from 

 the top of a hill, we found a winding shallow 

 passage running to the north-west, which we fol- 

 lowed for a short time, and then encamped, having 

 come twenty -three miles north by east half east. 



Some articles left by the Esquimaux attracted 

 our attention ; we found a winter sledge raised 

 upon four stones, with some snow-shovels, and a 

 small piece of whalebone. An ice-chisel, a knife, 

 and some beads, were left at this pile. The shores 

 of this bay, which I have named after Sir George 

 Warrender, are low and clayey, and the country 

 for many miles is level, and much intersected 

 with water ; but we had not leisure to ascertain 

 whether they were branches of the bay or fresh- 

 water lakes. Some white geese were seen this 

 evening, and some young gray ones were caught 

 on the beach, being unable to fly. We fired at 

 two rein-deer, but without success. 



On August 1 4th we paddled the whole day' 

 along the northern shores of the sound, returning 

 towards its mouth. The land which we were now 

 tracing is generally so flat, that it could not be 

 descried from the canoes at the distance of four 

 miles, and is invisible from the opposite side of 

 the sound, otherwise a short traverse might have 

 saved us some days. The few eminences tliat 



