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tittameg, bleak, star-fish, several herrings, and a flat 
fish resembling plaice, but covered on the back with 
horny excrescences. 
On the 6th we were detained in the encampment by 
stormy weather until five P.M., when we embarked 
and paddled along the northern shore of the inlet; 
the weather still continuing foggy, but the wind mod- 
erate. Observing on the beach a she bear with three 
young ones, we landed a party to attack them ; but, 
being approached without due caution, they took the 
alarm and scaled a precipitous rocky hill, with a 
rapidity that baffled all pursuit. At eight o’clock, 
the fog changing into rain, we encamped. Many 
seals were seen to-day, but as they kept in deep water 
we did not fire at them. 
On August 7th the atmosphere was charged with 
fog and rain all the day, but as the wind was moderate, 
we pursued our journey ; our situation, however, was 
very unpleasant, being quite wet and without room to 
stretch a limb, much less to obtain warmth by exer- 
cise. We passed a cove, which I have named after 
my friend Mr. W. H. Tinney ; and proceeded along 
the coast until five P.M., when we put up on a rocky 
point nearly opposite to our encampment on the 3d, 
having come twenty-three miles on a north-north-west 
course. 
“We were detained on the 8th by a northerly gale, 
