222 Thirty Years 
We got again into the main inlet, and paddled 
along its eastern shore until forty minutes after eight 
A.M., when we encamped in a small cove. We found 
a single log of drift wood ; it was pine, and sufficient- 
ly large to enable us to cook a portion of the bear, 
which had a slight fishy taste, but was deemed very 
palatable. 
August 10.—We followed up the east border of 
the inlet about twenty-four miles, and at length emer- 
ged into the open sea ; a body of islands to the west- 
ward concealing the channel by which we had entered. 
Here our progress was arrested by returning bad wea- 
ther. We killed a bear and its young cub of this 
year, on the beach near to our encampment. We 
heartily congratulated ourselves at having arrived at 
the eastern entrance of this inlet, which had cost us 
nine invaluable days in exploring. It contains several 
secure harbors, especially near the mouth of Back’s 
River, where there is a sandy bottom in forty fathoms. 
There also fish are plentiful, and reindeer and musk- 
oxen may be procured at this season, by spending a 
little time in hunting. 
On the 3d and 4th of August we Sbeeryed a fall ot 
more than two feet in the water during the night. 
There are various irregular and partial currents in the 
inlet, which may be attributed to the wind. I have 
distinguished it by the name Bathurst’s Inlet, in hon- 
