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before, but not a single recent one was to 

 be seen at this time. Credit, however, 

 killed a small deer at some distance inland, 

 which, with the addition of berries, furnished 

 a delightful repast this evening. The wea- 

 ther was remarkably fine, and the tempera- 

 ture so mild, that the musquitoes again made 

 their appearance, but not in any great num- 

 bers. Our distance made to-day was not 

 more than six miles. 



The next morning the net furnished us 

 with ten white fish and trout. Having 

 made a further deposit of iron work for the 

 Esquimaux we pursued our voyage up the 

 river, but the shoals and rapids in this part 

 were so frequent, that we walked along the 

 banks the whole day, and the crews laboured 

 hard in carrying the canoes thus lightened 

 over the shoals or dragging them up the 

 rapids, yet our journey in a direct line w T as 

 only about seven miles. In the evening we 

 encamped at the lower end of a narrow 

 chasm through which the river flows for 

 upwards of a mile. The walls of this 

 chasm are upwards of two hundred feet 



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