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the main shore, being very rugged, rocky, 

 and sterile, whereas the outline of the main 

 on the opposite side was even, and its hills 

 covered with a comparatively good sward 

 of grass, exhibiting little naked rock. 

 There was no drift timber, but the shores 

 near the encampment were strewed with 

 small pieces of willow, which indicated our 

 vicinity to the mouth of a river. This fuel 

 enabled us to make a hearty supper from a 

 small deer killed this evening. 



The shallows we passed this day were 

 covered with shoals of capelin, the angmag- 

 gceuk of the Esquimaux. It was known 

 to Augustus, who informed us that it fre- 

 quents the coast of Hudson's Bay, and is 

 delicate eating. The course and distance 

 made was, south by east-half-east, thirty- 

 three miles. 



After paddling twelve miles in the morn- 

 ing of the 5 th, we had the mortification to 

 find the inlet terminated by a river; the 

 size of which we could not ascertain, as the 

 entrance was blocked by shoals. Its mouth 

 lies in latitude 66° 30' N., longitude 107° 



