234 Thirty Years 



On August 18th the stormy weather and sea con- 

 tinuing, there was no prospect of our being able to 

 embark. Dr. Kichardson, Mr. Back, and I, therefore, 

 set out on foot to discover whether the land within a 

 day's march, inclined more to the east. We went 

 from ten to twelve miles along the coast, which con- 

 tinued flat, and kept the same direction as the en- 

 campment. The most distant land we saw had the 

 same bearing north-north-east, and appeared like two 

 islands, which we estimated to be six or seven miles 

 off ; the shore on their inside seemingly trended more 

 to the east, so that it is probable Point Turnagain, 

 for so this spot was named, forms the pitch of a low 

 flat cape. 



Augustus killed a deer in the afternoon, but the 

 men were not able to find it. The hunters found the 

 burrows of a number of white foxes, and Hepburn 

 killed one of these animals, which proved excellent 

 eating, esteemed by us as equal to the young geese, 

 with which it was boiled, and fir superior to the Iran 

 deer we had upon the coast. Large flocks of geese 

 passed over the tents, flying to the southward. The 

 lowest temperature to-day was 38°. 



Though it will appear from the chart, that the posi- 

 tion (,| Point Turnagain is only six degrees and a, half 

 to the oast of the mouth of the Copper-Mine River; 

 ailed, in tracing the deeply-indented coast, live 

 hundred and fiftj five ■■■ ographic miles, which is little 



