250 



Our North Land. 



From the above compilation it will be seen that the weather 

 throughout the whole voyage was, upon an average, very good- 

 After the Strait was entered, on August 5th, we did not meet with 

 a day of continuous fog. The greatest gale was on the 14th of 

 August, on the north shore of the Strait, at Ashe's Inlet. At four 

 o'clock a.m., it was blowing eighteen miles an hour ; at eight a.m., 

 forty-five miles an hour ; at twelve in., fifty miles an hour ; at four 

 p.m., forty-five miles an hour ; at eight p.m., forty miles an hour, 

 and at midnight still forty miles an hour, but it soon subsided. 

 This gale commenced blowing forty miles from the S.S.W., veered 

 to the N.W.. then N.N.W., when it attained its greatest strength. 

 It then dropped back to N.W., and remained there until its record 

 came down to three miles. It was followed by a light rain on the 

 15th, and then fair weather. On the 21st it blew for four hours 

 from the north, at thirty miles an hour, with mixed rain and snow, 

 but aside from these exceptions, the wind, while in the Strait on 

 the outward voyage, seldom reached a velocity of ten miles. On the 

 homeward voyage it was still better. 



On the 4th and 5th of September, while in Hudson's Bay on the 

 voyage from Marble Island to Churchill, we had heavy north-westerly 

 gales and thick weather. The record for the two days is as follows : 



