234 Thirty Years 
On August 18th the stormy weather and sea con- 
tinuing, there was no prospect of our being able to 
embark. ‘Dr. Richardson, Mr. Back, and I, therefore, 
set out on foot to discover whether the land within a 
day’s march, inclined more to the east. We went 
from ten to twelve miles along the coast, which con- 
tinued flat, and kept the same direction as the en- 
campment, The most distant land we saw had the 
same bearing north-north-east, and appeared like two 
islands, which we estimated to be six or seven miles 
off ; the shore on their inside seemingly trended more 
to the east, so that it is probable Point Turnagain, 
for so this spot was named, forms the pitch of a low 
flat cape. 
Augustus killed a deer in the afternoon, but the 
men were not able to find it. The hunters found the 
burrows of a number of white foxes, and Hepburn 
killed one of these animals, which proved excellent 
eating, esteemed by us as eaual to the young geese, - 
with which it was boiled, and far superior to the lean 
deer we had upon the coast. Large flocks of geese 
passed over the tents, flying to the southward. The 
lowest temperature to-day was 38°. 
Though it will appear from the chart, that the posi- 
tion of Point Turnagain is only six degrees and a half 
to the east of the mouth of the Copper-Mine River , 
we sailed, in tracing the deeply-indented coast, five 
hundred and fifty-five geographic miles, which is little 
