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eatable ; this was occasioned by our having 

 □ compelled, through haste, to dry it by fire instead 

 of the sun. It was not, however, the quality of our 

 provision thai gave us uneasiness, bul its diminution, 

 and the atter incapacity to obtain any addition. 8 

 were the only animals that met our view at thu 

 and these we could never approach, 



Dr. Richardson discovered near the beach a small 

 vein of galena, traversing gni . and the people 



collected a quantity of it in the hope of adding to our 



k of balls; but their endeavors to smelt it, vi 

 as may be Bupp ised, ineffectual. The drift timbei 

 this part of the coast consists of pine and tacca mah 

 (poptdtu balsamifera) mosi probably from Macken- 

 zie's, or some other river to the eastward of the Cop- 

 It all appears to have lain long in the 

 water, the hark being completely worn off, and the 

 .•mis of the pieces rubbed perfectly smooth. There 

 was a sharp frosl last night, which formed a pi 

 thick trust of ice in a kettle of wat. r thai Btood in 

 tents ; and for several nighl thin films of ice 



have been formed on the salt water among I 

 of stream ice.* Notwithstanding this state of tem- 

 perature, we were tormented by swarms of musqui- 



...• had persuaded o thai these ; 



could not sustain the cold in the vicinity of the e 



* Tl. •••a. 



