112 PROCEEDINGS OF THK CANADIAN IXSTITUTE. 



Friday, August 28th. — "We grounded last night again for about 

 two hours ; tide like a mill-stream. Started at 5 a.m. ; tide coming 

 in ; foolishly did not keep near shore and got into current ; took two 

 hours going less than a mile, sail set, wind fresh and fair, three 

 men rowing ; wind modei'ately fresh and fair all day ; made run of, 

 I suppose, 40 miles, but by dark had failed to find harbour ; had to 

 anchor in an exposed place ; saw two Eskimo ; they say 8 days by 

 commatik from this to Ungava. 



Saturday, August 29th. — Under way again at daylight; scarcely 

 any wind all day ; by rowing and sailing may have made 1 5 or 20 

 miles ; shore continues low. No harbour again to-night ; turned in 

 about 7 o'clock. Half an hour after one of the men called out that 

 boat was half full of water, and so it proved ; everything wet, instru- 

 ments, chronometer, bags — evei'ything. In trying to find plug-hole 

 shoved both my arms with shirt and coat-sleeves into water. Slept 

 in wet things as I had not a change ; misei'able night. How the plug 

 came ovit I cannot imagine. 



Sunday, August 30th. — Wind light from E. ; no use tiying to get 

 on, so sought a harbour in order to dry some of the things. Found 

 what seemed to be good one ; 25 feet water at flood-tide, but a few 

 hours after anchoring we were high and dry with no water to be seen 

 in any direction ; day raw and cold, thi-eatening rain ; very unsuc- 

 cessful as to drying clothes. Tide came in again at 7 o'clock ; just 

 getting dark ; saw boat safely anchored, and turned in prepared to 

 turn out again about one o'clock in oi'der to see that she landed on a 

 sandy spot when the tide went out. At 2 a.m. she grounded satis- 

 factoi-ily, and I slept soundly until the water returned at 8 a.m. 

 Tide here runs like a sluice ; spring tides, I suspect, about 40 feet. 



Monday, August 31st. — Under weigh at 8 a.m. ; good N.N.E. 

 wind all day ; must have made between 40 and 50 miles. No har- 

 bour at night ; anchored in two fathoms at low water, about a mile 

 from shore ; spent sleepless night, as wind freshened fi'om N.E., and 

 sea began to rise. At 1 1 p.m. thought myself in fix, but wind again 

 fell light. 



Tuesday, Sept. 1. — Started at daybreak; very light N.W. wind 

 until about 10 o'clock; after this it freshened from N.E. with a 

 threatening sky and occasional showers. Determined to seek a har- 

 bour early, so headed for a point which I judged could be made by 4 

 p.m. What a very lucky hit ; this Point had a beacon on it, and 



