222 JOURNEY TO THE SHORES 



Our breakfast diminished our provision 

 to two bags of pemmican and a single meal 

 of dried meat. The men began to appre- 

 hend absolute want of food, and we had to 

 listen to their gloomy forebodings of the 

 deer entirely quitting the coast in a few 

 days. As we were embarking, however, a 

 large bear was discovered on the opposite 

 shore, which we had the good fortune to 

 kill ; and the sight of this fat meat relieved 

 their fears for the present. Dr. Richardson 

 found in the stomach of this animal the 

 remains of a seal, several marmots (arctomys 

 Richardsonii), a large quantity of the liquo- 

 rice root of Mackenzie (hedysarum), which 

 is common on these shores, and some ber- 

 ries. There was also intermixed with these 

 substances a small quantity of grass. 



We got again into the main inlet, and 

 paddled along its eastern shore until forty 

 minutes after eight A.M., when we encamped 

 in a small cove. We found a single log of 

 drift wood, it was pine, and sufficiently 

 large to enable us to cook a portion of the 



