228 Thirty Years 



it to be in bad health, would not taste the flesh* ; we, 

 however, were less nice. 



We encamped at the end of twenty-four miles' 

 march, on the north-west side of a bay, to which I 

 have given the name of my friend Captain Parry, now 

 employed in the interesting research for a North- West 

 Passage. Drift wood had become very scarce, and we 

 found none near the encampment ; a fire, however, 

 was not required, as we served out pemmican for sup- 

 per, and the evening was unusually warm. 



On the following morning the breeze was fresh, and 

 the waves rather high. In paddling along the west 

 side of Parry's Bay, we saw several deer, but owing 

 to the openness of the country, the hunters could not 

 approach them. They killed, however, two swans 

 that were moulting, several cranes, and many grey 

 geese. We procured also some caccawees, which were 

 then moulting and assembled in immense ilocks. In 

 the evening, having rounded Point Beechy, and passed 

 Kurd's Islands, we were exposed to much inconveni- 

 ence and danger from a heavy rolling sea ; the canoes 

 ; v Bevere blows, and shipping a good 

 deal of water, which induced us to encamp at live 

 P.M. opposite to Cape Croker, which we had passed 

 onth-' morning of the L2th ; theohannel, which lay be- 

 tween our situation and it, being about Beven miles 

 wide. We had now reached the northern point i 



