ON THE LOWER. TEEZOA. tia 
During the whole of the 25th our course continued to 
be westerly and north-westerly, and because of this we 
began to feel anxious. We had now passed the latitude 
of Baker Lake, where, acording to information obtained 
from the Eskimos, we were expecting the river to take 
us. Instead of drawing nearer to it, we were heading 
away toward the Back or Great Fish River, which dis- 
charges its waters into the Arctic Ocean, and was, on 
our present course, distant only two days’ journey. 
Towards evening, however, a marked change was ob- 
served in the character of the river. The banks grew 
lower and consisted of soft, coarse-grained sandstone. 
The water became shallow and the channel broadened 
out into a little lake, containing numerous shoals and 
low islands of sand. Just beyond this, much to our 
surprise and pleasure, we suddenly came upon abund- 
ance of drift-wood—not little sticks of willow or 
ground birch, but the trunks of trees six or eight inches 
in diameter, as heavy as two men could carry. No 
growing trees were to be seen in the district, nor had 
we seen any during the previous three or four hundred 
miles of our journey. At first, therefore, the occurrence 
of the wood seemed unaccountable, but the theory soon 
suggested itself that we must be close to the confluence 
of some other stream flowing through a wooded country. 
No other could account for its existence in this remote 
region, and accordingly this theory was borne out by the 
discovery, within a short distance, of a river as large as 
the Telzoa, flowing in from the westward and with it 
mingling its dark-colored waters. 
The abundance and condition of the drift-wood, which 
was not badly battered, would indicate that upon the 
