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which blew violently throughout the day, attended 
by fog and rain. Somé of the men went out to hunt, 
but they saw no other animal than a white wolf, which 
could not be approached. The fresh meat being ex- 
pended, a little pemmican was served out this evening. 
The gale abated on the morning of the 9th; and 
the sea, which it had raised, having greatly subsided, 
we embarked at seven A.M., and after paddling three 
or four miles, opened Sir J. A. Gordon’s Bay, into 
which we penetrated thirteen miles, and then dis- 
covered from the summit of a hill that it would be 
vain to procced in this direction, in search of a passage 
out of the inlet. 
Our breakfast diminished our provision to two bags 
of pemmican, and a single meal of dried meat. The 
men began to apprehend absolute want of food, and 
we had to listen to their gloomy forebodings of the 
deer entirely quitting the coast in a few days. As we 
were embarking, however, a large bear was discovered 
on the opposite shore, which we had the good fortune 
to kill; and the sight of this fat meat relieved their 
fears for the present. Dr. Richardson found in the 
stomach of this animal the remains of a seal, several 
marmots, a large quantity of the liquorice root of 
Mackenzie, which is common on these shores, and 
some berries. There was also intermixed with these 
substances a small quantity of grass. 
