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378 A JOURNEY TO THE SHORES 



the day, but as the wind was moderate we pursued our journey ; 

 our situation, however, was very unpleasant, being quite wet and 

 without room to stretch a limb, much less to obtain warmth by 

 exercise. We passed a cove, which I have named after my friend 

 Mr. W. H. Tinney ; and proceeded along the coast until five P.M., 

 when we put up on a rocky point nearly opposite to our encampment 

 on the 3d, having come twenty-three miles on a north-north-west 

 course. 



We were detained on the 8th by a northerly gale, which blew 

 violently throughout the day, attended by fog and rain. Some of 

 the men went out to hunt, but they saw no other animal than a 

 white wolf, which could not be approached. The fresh meat being 

 expended, a little pemmican was served out this evening. 



The gale abated on the morning of the 9th ; and the sea, which 

 it had raised, having greatly subsided, we embarked at seven A.M., 

 and after paddling three or four miles, opened Sir J. A. Gordon's 

 Bay, into which we penetrated thirteen miles, and then discovered 

 from the summit of a hill that it would be vain to proceed in this 

 direction, in search of a passage out of the inlet. 



Our breakfast diminished our provision to two bags of pemmican, 

 and a single meal of dried meat. The men began to apprehend 

 absolute want of food, and we had to listen to their gloomy fore- 

 bodings 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 liquorice 

 root of Mackenzie (hedysarum) which is common on these shores, 

 and some berries. There was also intermixed with these substances 

 a small quantity of grass. 



We got again into the main inlet, and paddled along its eastern 



