248 JOURNEY TO THE SHORES 



the small pools were frozen. Our hunters 

 were sent out, but they returned after a 

 fatiguing day's march without having seen 

 any animals. We made a scanty meal off 

 a handful of pemmican, after which only 

 half a bag remained. 



The wind abated after midnight, and the 

 surf diminished rapidly, which caused us to 

 be on the alert at a very early hour on the 

 22d, but we had to wait until six A.M. for 

 the return of Augustus, who had continued 

 out all night on an unsuccessful pursuit of 

 deer. It appears that he had walked a few 

 miles farther along the coast than the party 

 had done on the 18th, and, from a sketch 

 he drew on the sand, we were confirmed in 

 our former opinion, that the shore inclined 

 more to the eastward beyond Point Turna- 

 gain. He also drew a river of considerable 

 size, that discharges its waters into Walker's 

 Bay; on the banks of which stream he saw 

 a piece of wood, such as the Esquimaux 

 use in producing fire, and other marks so 

 fresh, that he supposed they had recently 

 visited the spot. We therefore left several 



