148 



SIR GEORGE BACK, 1833. 



name of the two boats, Dolphin and Union. Near Manners Sutton 

 Island the tide indicated a stronger current of both flood and ebb 

 than we had hitherto seen ; sometimes it attained a velocity of 

 3 knots per hour. Cape Krusentern was reached on the 7th, and 

 the mouth of the Coppermine Eiver on the 9 th. The boats were 

 abandoned at the Bloody Falls. The loads amounted to 72 lbs. per 

 man, and the pace averaged 2 miles per hour. On the 13th the 

 banks of the river were left, and a direct course made for the Great 

 Bear Lake, which was reached on the 17th. Indians were met with 

 on the 15th. On the 24th Beulim arrived in a boat and several 

 canoes from Fort Franklin, which they reached on September 1st. 



Table of High Water reduced to full and change, compiled by Lieut. Kendall, R.N., 

 on the Boat Voyage between the Mackenzie and the Coppermine Rivers in 1826. 



Distances travelled by Dr. Richardson and Mr. Kendall. 



MILKS. 



From Fort Franklin to Point Separation 525 



„ Point Separation to Point Encounter 159 



„ Point Encounter to Coppermine River . . . . 863 



„ Coppermine River to Fort Franklin 433 



Sir G. Bach's Voyage down the Great Fish River. — In the year 

 1832 grave apprehensions arose for the fate of Sir J. Eoss and 

 his companions, who had left England in 1829. Sir George Back, 

 than whom no person was better qualified, undertook to command 

 an expedition down the Great Eiver Thlew-ee-chow-dezeth. This 



