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warmth by exercise. We passed a cove, 

 which I have named after my friend Mr. 

 W. H. Tinney, and proceeded along the 

 coast until five P.M., when we put up on a 

 rocky point nearly opposite to our encamp- 

 ment on the 3d, having come twenty-three 

 miles on a north-north- west course. 



We were detained on the 8th by a 

 northerly gale, which blew violently through- 

 out the day, attended by fog and rain. 

 Some of the men went out to hunt, but they 

 saw no other animal than a white wolf, which 

 could not be approached. The fresh meat 

 being expended, a little pemmican was 

 served out this evening. 



The gale abated on the morning of the 

 9th ; and the sea, which it had raised, hav- 

 ing greatly subsided, we embarked at seven 

 A.M., and after paddling three or four 

 miles, opened Sir J. A. Gordon's Bay, into 

 which we penetrated thirteen miles, and 

 then discovered from the summit of a hill 

 that it would be vain to proceed in this 

 direction, in search of a passage out of the 

 inlet. 



