In the Artic Regions. _ 215 
the eastern shore of Arctic Sound, distinguished by 
the name of Bank’s Peninsula, in honor of the late 
Right Honorable Sir Joseph Banks, President of the 
Royal Society ; and rounding Point Wollaston at its 
eastern extremity, opened another extensive sheet of 
water; and the remainder of. the afternoon was spent 
in endeavoring to ascertain, from the tops of the hills, 
whether it was another bay, or merely a passage en- 
closed by a chain of islands. Appearances rather 
favoring the latter opinion, we determined on proceed- 
ing through it to the southward. During the delay 
four more deer were killed, all young and lean, It 
appears that the coast is pretty well frequented by 
reindeer at this season; but it is rather singular, that 
hitherto we have killed none (excepting the first) but 
young ones of last season, which were all too lean to 
have been eaten by any but persons who had no choice. 
We paddled along the western shore with the inten- 
tion of encamping, but were prevented from the want 
of drift wood on the beach. This induced us to make | 
a traverse to an island, where we put up at midnight, 
having found a small bay, whose shores furnished us 
with a little fire-wood. A heavy gale came on from 
the westward, attended with constant rain, and one of 
the squalls overthrew our tents. The course and dis- 
tance made to-day were north-east sixteen miles and 
a half. I. may here mention, that Arctic Sound ap- 
