In the Ari ' /•' 24 1 



with unusual vigor, carried us across Riley's and 

 Walker's Bays, a distance of twenty miles before noon, 

 when we landed on Slate-Clay Point, as the wind had 

 freshened too much to permit as I me the voy- 



age. The whole party went to hunt, but returne l 

 without in the evening, drenched with the 



heavy rain which commenced soon after they had set 

 iJ deer v. could not be ap- 



proached in this naked country ; and as our stock of 

 pemmican did not admit oi serving out two meals, we 

 went dinner! d.* 



i alter our departure to-day, a sealed tin- 

 sufficiently buoyant to float, was thrown overhoard, 

 containing a shorl account of our proceedings, an I the 

 position of the most conspicuous points. The wind 

 blew off the land, the water was smooth, and as th- 

 is in this part more free from islands than in any 

 other, there was r\v\y probability of its being driven 

 off the slmre into the current ; which, as I have before 

 mentioned, we Buppose, from the circumstt 



River being the only known stream that 



brings down the wood we have found along the shoi 



' to the eastward. 



23. — A sevei i frot t caused us. | . | 

 comfortless night. At 2 P.M. ■• ail, and the 



men voluntarily Launched out to make 

 fifteen miles across Blelvill Bound, before a strong 



