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the tepic ; the marks of his temporary sojourn were in- 

 dubitable, as witnessed by the stones which had been 

 used to prop up his tent, the feathers and bones of sea- 

 fowl he had shot or snared, and by the scattered seal 

 bones and skins and other unmistakable signs of Eskimo 

 occupancy and of Eskimo personal uncleanliness. 



July 27th and 28th we had a severe gale from the 

 north, with snow and rain. All through the day. the poor 

 women on the other vessel had to do their cooking on 

 deck without shelter. On the 28th the thermometer 

 went down to 34° F., and we had nearly two inches of 

 snow on our deck, while on the hills above us were 

 drifts a foot deep which lasted for a day or two, as meas- 

 ured by Mr. Willis, who explored on the following day 

 the heights above us, and reported tracks of foxes in the 

 snow. Two deer were also seen by some fishermen. 



On the 29th it cleared off, and at sunset the wind 

 changed to the west. At last we picked up an Eskimo 

 pilot for Hopedale. He had been partly educated, and 

 was living with a Norwegian who had been on the coast 

 for eleven years, during seven of which he was in the 

 employ of the Hudson Bay Company, his pay being 

 fifty dollars a year. He brought us two salmon of a 

 species I had not before seen, and which proved to be 

 Salmo immaculatus of Storer. 



He nets more of these, which he calls salmon trout, 

 than of the true salmon, fishing for them with a twenty- 

 foot net. The salmon come in usually on the 22d of 

 July, and continue to run up the streams until about the 

 20th of August. The "salmon trout" is found nearer 

 shore, while the large true salmon is more abundant at 

 the mouth. of the bay than ten miles inland, where our 



