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practicable route. We examined first a large canon running in a 

 north-westerly direction, but, after four or five hours' walking, were 

 obliged to give it up as impracticable, and return to camp. While 

 Bay was cooking some food, I further examined the country near 

 the rapids. 



When we eventually turned into the bag that night, we had 

 had a working day of twenty-four hours, but we recouped 

 ourselves with interest, and slept the clock round. The fact that 



H. THE BIG CANON, FARTHER WEST. 



it was night or day made little difference to us, we slept when it 

 was convenient ; for what did it matter the sun shone all round 

 the twenty-four hours. 



After we had made a detour round the rapids by crossing some 

 sand-hills, our advance became quite easy. The gradient was incon- 

 siderable, and we covered the ground quickly up to the watershed. 

 About midway between the watershed and the fjord the valley 

 was narrowed by another rapid which divided it into two parts, of 

 which the upper one trended a point more to the west than the 



