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obliged to make for the shore, and in order to do so had 
to pull through a heavy surf breaking over the low 
sandy beach. During the afternoon at this point ob- 
servations for longitude were obtained, and close by 
upon a prominent hill a large cairn of rocks was erected 
to mark the spot for the benefit of future explorers. _ 
The two following days were marked by rough 
weather and little progress, but finally we reached the 
mouth of the great Inlet through which for several days 
we had been paddling. 
For having completed another stage of the journey 
we were exceedingly glad, but coupled with this fact 
there was another, viz., that before us was a five- 
hundred-mile voyage to be made in open canoes down 
an exposed sea-coast. Here we would be surrounded 
by entirely new conditions and confronted with new 
difficulties. 
HALF-BREED BOY. 
