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where we killed the deer on the 11th, 

 almost the whole party went out to hunt, 

 but returned in the evening without having 

 seen any game. The berries, however, 

 were ripe and plentiful, and, with the addi- 

 tion of some country tea, furnished a supper. 

 There were some showers in the afternoon, 

 and the weather was cold, the thermometer 

 being 42°, but the evening and night were 

 calm and fine. It may be remarked that 

 the musquitoes disappeared when the late 

 gales commenced. 



August 24. — Embarking at three A.M., 

 we stretched across the eastern entrance of 

 Bathurst's Inlet, and arrived at an island, 

 which I have named after the Right Hon. 

 Colonel Barry, of Newton Barry. Some 

 deer being seen on the beach, the hunters 

 went in pursuit of them, and succeeded in 

 killing three females, which enabled us to 

 save our last remaining meal of pemmican, 

 They saw also some fresh tracks of musk- 

 oxen on the banks of a small stream which 

 flowed into a lake in the centre of the island. 

 These animals must have crossed a channel 



