200 A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY 
The fawn appeared to be very young, at least if I 
may judge of its age by its size, for it did not look 
to be much larger than a full grown eat. It could 
run however very fast, for one of our party who 
went a little distance after them, found that he had 
no chance of coming up with them by dint. of 
speed. The fawn seemed to be rather of a darker 
colour than the doe; the latter did not differ 
in this respect from those which we killed in the 
beginning of last winter. 
We continued our journey until six o ‘clock this 
morning, when we again pitched our tents, supped, 
and iy down to rest, leaving an officer and a man 
on watch, to keep a look-out, in case of our being 
taken by surprise, by any wild animal, &c. Soon 
after we pitched our tents, an accident occurred 
to our thermometer, owing to the carelessness of 
one of the men, who let something fall upon it, 
which rendered it useless. The ground was frozen 
quite hard when we lay down, but the heat of the 
sun was so very powerful during the day, that we 
found no inconvenience from cold in our tents, 
though from being as yet unaccustomed to bivou- 
acking, few of us got any sleep; we rested however 
very comfortably. - 
We found by meridian altitude, our latitude to 
be 75° 00’ 37” N., and longitude, by chronometer, 
10’ east of Winter Harbour, so that we must have 
travelled over fifteen or sixteen miles of ground, 
‘since ‘we left the ships; the difference of latitude 
alone between them and us being thirteen geogra- 
phical miles. At four o’clock P. M. we all got up, 
and prepared for resuming our journey. We break- 
