246 EOW UP TO THE HEAD OF FIORD. 



actually began to graze on liis three remaining 

 legs as if notliing had happened of sufficient 

 consequence to keep him from his dinner ! 



On the 26th, we again started at 4 in the 

 morning in both boats, to make an expedition 

 to the head of Stour Piord, distant about 

 seventeen miles ; with tlie view of laying in a 

 further supply of deer. We first ran about six 

 or seven miles under sail, with a fine breeze 

 and smooth water ; and then, the fiord making 

 an abrupt turn to the east*, we were obliged 

 to take to the oars, and after six hours of hard 

 pulling against both wind and tide, we reached 

 the emhouclmre of an extensive fiattish valley, 

 which I knew to be one of the best places in 

 the country for deer. Here we left Lord David, 

 as I felt sure that he would have no difficulty 

 in filling his boat with venison. Not caring 

 about that description of sport myself, I con- 

 tinued three or four miles further on, to 

 explore a sort of narrow gut or sound into 

 which the fiord there contracts, in hopes of 

 finding some floating ice with seals, or may-be 

 a bear. We found a good deal of ice but no 

 seals, and on entering the gut there was such 



* It is erroneously marked iu the cliarts as if it con- 

 tinued straight north. 



