318 The Deposit Changed. tMay,i86r. 



wli.»l./ i)artv rested until 5 p. m of the next clay. Tlie icing on the 

 sled-runners had proved so solid on the night previous, as to be unin- 

 jured even when the dogs were flying over the rocks of the Cape — or 

 blufl', as he tliinks this point should rather be named, as "it is no cape 

 at all but siniplv a little hill rising above the low snow-clad coast." 



Hall could not forget the necessity of having a cache certainly 

 awaiting him on the first renewed advance which he could make to- 

 ward Kinir William's Land. It marks an indomitable will and faith in 

 his final success that, although disappointed in the three preceding 

 years, he should again deposit at a distance from him, such valuable 

 stores to await the issues of a fourth twelve month. His purpose at 

 this date ^^'as to leave the greater part of the stores at the first place 

 on the coast where he could find loose stones to cover them ; he felt 

 satisfied they would be safer at such a place than at the Cape, 

 for he had learned that his apprehensions of the Pelly Bay men were 

 well grounded. 



Happily he found a spot seemingly every way suited for the 

 j>urpose. His notes, with their usual precision, record this location of 

 the deposit: "Cape Weynton, N. 62^ E. (by compass) : Range of hills 

 in which deposit was made running S. 45° E. and N. 45° W. : Deposit 

 made near the face ot hill, thirty-three of my paces from a little pile 

 of stones <>n top of a rock." 



The I{<turii J(Mniiey occupied, in all, the days from 11 ]). m.. May 

 10, to 11 p. in., .M;i\ 17. Ihill arrived at Beacon Hill at 6.30 a. m. of 

 the 17th. and at Ships IImiImh- MjukIs at tlie date last named. The 

 noUjs of this j.iiini.y, ;i1i1,.,um|, tlicy record the usual details, present 

 no very specnil u.-ms d inicrest, except the appearance of a much 



