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over newly-formed ice intermingled witli heavy pieces and hummocks. 
Our load being light, the dogs drew the sledge in a half-trot, causing 
us to keep up a brisk walk. On meeting with rough hummocky ice, 
we unharnessed the dogs and drew the sledge ourselves for the next 
two or three miles, passing Coffee Gorge and camping for the night 
about five miles beyond. It was the work of half an hour to pitch our 
tent, unharness our dogs, collect snow for water, and carefully stow 
our dogs in one side of our tent and ourselves in the other. On open¬ 
ing our provision-bag we were not a little mortified to find our fresli 
beef and pemmican had been forgotten, and were forced to make out 
with a much less palatable dish than our commander had kindly in¬ 
tended,—a stew of pork and bread. 
October 22, Saturday.—Roused Morton and John at six, it being 
not yet quite light. A pot of coffee and pork-stew constituted our 
breakfast. By half-past eight we were on our march, and at twelve 
we halted to melt snow for the dogs opposite to the point to the 
eastward of Marshall Bay. I took sextant-altitudes of the cliffs, 
called by Commander Kane Tennyson Monument, steppiug a base-line 
of two hundred yards. The results are:—height of cliffs to top of 
debris, seven hundred and twelve feet; height of debris, three 
hundred and fifty feet. Upon a rude estimate, the debris runs out at 
an angle of forty degrees. At half-past twelve we were off again on a 
“ dog-trot,” keeping a straight course for the outermost point of a 
large cape, hoping to reach it by noon of the following day. About 
three o'clock we pitched our tent in the centre of a large old floe, about 
ten miles from the nearest point of the opposite shore. We were here 
in full view of the bay, in the centre of which rose the rugged faces 
of the syenites,—the same range crossed in my inland journey in Sep¬ 
tember. Chimney Rock was recognised as the same headland sighted 
from the plateau in that journey, bearing N. 50° E. By half-past 
five we were ready to turn in. On unwrapping the thermometer, 
to my great mortification and astonishment, I found it broken,—an 
accident wdiich must have occurred in the lashing of the sledge. It 
was, however, most carefully wrapped in woollen, and placed in the 
centre of the sleeping-bags and buffalo-robes, so that I thought there 
could bo no danger of accident. As I was much interested in the re¬ 
sults to be obtained, the defeat was no small disappointment, and the 
idea of turning back, which appeared the only alternative, no less un¬ 
pleasant. As endeavoring to obtain sights of the opposite coast-line 
and make a survey of this was secondary to the other object, I thought 
that, in the uncertainty of having clear weather, and the great proba« 
