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thin plank, painted white or pale yellow ; these 

 might have been the bottom boards of a boat. 

 There were many smaller articles of wood. 



Half a mile further on we found seven or 

 eight deserted snow huts. Bad weather had 

 now fairly set in, accompanied by a most un- 

 seasonable degree of cold. On the morning of 

 the 12th May we crossed Point Ogle, and en- 

 camped upon the ice in the Great Fish River 

 the same evening; the cold, and the darkness 

 of our more southern latitude, having obliged 

 us to return to day-travelling. All the 13th we 

 were imprisoned in our tent by a most furious 

 gale, nor was it until late on the morning of the 

 14th that we could proceed ; that evening we 

 encamped 2 miles from some small islands which 

 lie off the north end of Montreal Island . 



On the morning of the 1 5th we made only a 

 short march of 6 miles, as one of the men suf- 

 fered severely from snow-blindness, and I was 

 anxious to recommence night-travelling; en- 

 camped in a little bay upon the N.E. side of 

 Montreal Island. The same evening we again 

 set out, although it was blowing very strongly, 

 and " snowing for a wager," as the men ex- 

 pressed it, but it was only necessary for us to 

 keep close along the shore of the island : we 

 discovered, however, a narrow and crooked 



