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we pushed on to Boulder Island to breakfast, the ice 

 having happily drifted off shore during the night. 

 Here, amongst quantities of drift timber, was a 

 straight trunk, full eighty feet in length, and ten in 

 circumference at its base. Proceeding onwards, 

 eight tents, and a hut of driftwood, were espied 

 upon the shore, but, strange to say, no natives 

 appeared : we did not halt to examine them, but 

 pushed on with a light breeze, and reaching Barter 

 Island late at night, landed and encamped. 



I should think that Barter Island is in the winter 

 time much overlaid by ice ; its shelving, shingly shore 

 would yield to the enormous pressure of a gale- 

 driven pack. 



Three cases of pemmican were buried on the 18th, 

 on a small island near Manning Point, and a cross 

 erected, with directions to search at ten feet distance, 

 north-east, where information was deposited. Near 

 Humphrey's Point, on the morning of the 20th, 

 four tents were seen, from which a couple of dozen 

 natives came forth to gaze ; but being under sail, we 

 could not linger here. We landed near Icy Reef in 

 the afternoon to dine, and observed several huts, 

 loosely constructed of rods and driftwood, except 

 one or two, which were more compactly built, and 

 had possibly served as winter dwellings. In one of 



