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obliged to make for the shore, and in order to do so had 

 to pull through a heavy surf breaking over the low 

 sandy beach. During the afternoon at this point ob- 

 servations for longitude were obtained, and .close by 

 upon a prominent hill a large cairn of rocks was erected 

 to mark the spot for the benefit of future explorers. 



The two following days were marked by rough 

 weather and little progress, but finally we reached the 

 mouth of the great Inlet through which for several days 

 we had been paddling. 



For having completed another stage of the journey 

 we were exceedingly glad, but coupled with this fact 

 there was another, viz., that before us was a five- 

 hundred-mile voyage to be made in, open canoes down 

 an exposed sea-coast. Here we would be surrounded 

 by entirely new conditions and confronted with new 

 difficulties. 



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