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with unusual vigor, carried us across Riley’s and 
Walker’s Bays, a distance of twenty miles before noon, 
when we landed on Slate-Clay Point, as the wind had 
freshened too much to permit us to continue the voy- 
age. The whole party went to hunt, but returned 
without success in the evening, drenched with the 
heavy rain which commenced soon after they had set 
out. Several deer were seen, but could not be ap- 
proached in this naked country ; and as our stock of 
pemmican did not admit of serving out two meals, we 
went dinnerless to bed. 
Soon after our departure to-day, a sealed tin-case, 
sufficiently buoyant to float, was thrown overboard, 
containing a short account of our proceedings, and the 
position of the most conspicuous points. The wind 
blew off the land, the water was smooth, and as the 
sea is in this part more free from islands than in any 
other, there gvas every probability of its being driven 
off the shore into the current ; which, as I have before 
mentioned, we suppose, from the circumstance of 
Mackenzie’s River being the only known stream that 
brings down the wood we have found along the-shores, © 
to set to the eastward. 
August 23.—A severe frost_ caused, us to pass a 
comfortless night. At 2 P.M. we set sail, and the 
men voluntarily launched out to make a traverse of 
fifteen miles across Melville Sound, before a strong 
