APPENDIX NO. Y. 
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Mr. Wilson afforded us a good supper, cooked Esquimaux-fashion by 
Hans, on a flat stone, with the burning rags from around our pemmican. 
Thermometer at 3 P.M., +23°, at 11 A.M., +16°.2. 
September 10, Saturday.—Heady and on our march at 10.30 a.m. 
A heavy fog which lmng over the bay obscured the headlands, and 
prevented our connecting our position with that of any known point. 
We were, I supposed, at least two points to the south of east from the 
vessel. We ascended to the highest point of the plateau by a succes¬ 
sion of steps, three in number, which brought us to an elevation one- 
third higher than the terminating headland. From this point we could 
see the syenites we had just left again cropping out much less bluffy, 
and terminating the table-land to the eastward by a continuous line, 
trending generally northwest and southeast. The opposite shore of the 
sound could be distinguished by high conical peaks; and a headland of 
the eastern shore was distinctly visible, with its table-land, which ran 
back until it was lost in the syenitic outcropping, which terminated the 
eastern view by a range of long bluffs, trending apparently north and 
south. To the southeast and south was visible a long continuous mist- 
bank, reaching 4° or 5° of altitude, and terminating below in vertical 
lines, alternately light and dark. This I supposed to be a great internal 
glacier, from fifty to sixty miles distant. Its upper lino or surface was 
lost in the mist, and could in no place be determined. We reached the 
ridge to the eastward at 9 p.m., and encamped. As neither water nor 
fuel could be found, we were obliged to content ourselves with rawpem- 
inicau and a little brandy,—a meal by no means unpalatable after a hard 
journey of at least twenty miles. 
September 11, Sunday.—Our route lay due east over a gently undu¬ 
lating country. Nearly every two miles we found a lake or pool, from 
which wo procured water by breaking ice six or eight inches thick. 
The travelling was more tedious than over the unbroken plain of yester¬ 
day, as we had often to jump from rock to rock. But a single high 
bluff was seen. It was hemispherical, and from one hundred to one 
hundred and fifty feet high. Having made about eight miles, we 
encamped at 8 p.m. Thermometer at midnight, +9°.5. I found it 
impossible to lay down our track by a series of triangulations, as at 
the distance of a mile one point could not be distinguished from an¬ 
other. Many reindeer and fox-tracks were seen during the day, but 
no living thing passed within view. 
September 12, Monday.—Set out at 10.30 a.m. Our route growing 
more interrupted by fissures and gorges, added to the difficulties of 
travel. On one occasion I tumbled headforemost down some rocks; 
