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expend our pemmican. Several deer were 

 seen, but the hunters could not approach 

 them ; they killed two swans. We observed 

 the latitude 68° 1' 20' where we had halted 

 to breakfast this morning. 



August IS. — Though the wind was not 

 much diminished, we were urged, by the 

 want of fire-wood, to venture upon pro- 

 ceeding. We paddled close to the shore 

 for some miles, and then ran before the 

 breeze with reefed sails, scarcely two feet 

 in depth. Both the canoes received much 

 water, and one of them struck twice on 

 sunken rocks. At the end of eighteen 

 miles we halted to breakfast in a bay, which 

 I have named after Vice- Admiral Sir Wil- 

 liam Johnstone Hope, one of the Lords of 

 the Admiralty. 



We found here a considerable quantity of 

 small willows, such as are brought down by 

 the rivers we had hitherto seen ; and hence 

 we judged, that a river discharges itself into 

 the bottom of this bay. A paddle was also 

 found, which Augustus, on examination, 

 declared to be made after the fashion of the 

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