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do not hesitate, as we more than 



helping themselves secretly ; it being, in their opinion, 



no disgrace to be caughl in the acl of pilfering food. 



< > 1 1 r only luxury now was ;i little salt, which h 1 

 long been our substitute both for bread and vegetables. 

 Since our departure from Poinl Lake we had boiled 

 the [ndian tea plant, ledum palustre, which produced 

 a beverage in smell much resembling rhubarb ; not- 

 withstanding which we found it refreshing, and were 

 gratified t i Bee this plant flourishing abundantly, 

 though of dwarfish growth, on the sea-shore. 



July 21. — Tlic wind, which had blown st 

 through tin- night, became moderate in the morning, 

 Imt a dense fog prevented us from embarking until 

 noon, when we commenced our voyage on tli-' li 

 borean Sea S.n>n afterwards we landed <>n an island 

 where tli" Esquimaux had erected a Btage of drift 

 timber, and stored up many of their fishing imple- 

 ments and winter sledges, together with a greal many 



'. ox, and deer -kins. Their i 

 headed with 1h.ii-. and many small articles of the 

 same material, were worked with extreme neatn 

 well as their wooden dishes, and cooking ut< nsils of 

 stein' ; and several articles very elegantly i 



\ idently intended f r i •. bul 



Augustus was unacquainted withtheiru e. W< 

 from this deposil four Beal .-kins to repair our Bhoes, 



