. Narrative of the Arctic land expedition to the mouth of the Great Fish River and along the shores of the Arctic Ocean in the years 1833, 1834, and 1835 [microform]. Scientific expeditions; Expéditions scientifiques. J" If il l*fc - ' . 278 JOT7RN15Y TO THE ^1 'HES was prudent to avoid; and, to say the truth, however habit may in most things produce a sort of callous indifference to danger, I had abundant ptDof this day that the rule does not always hold good, for the very e/i/e of my men were begin- ning to evince a cautiousness which was quite new to them; and the order fur encamping w
. Narrative of the Arctic land expedition to the mouth of the Great Fish River and along the shores of the Arctic Ocean in the years 1833, 1834, and 1835 [microform]. Scientific expeditions; Expéditions scientifiques. J" If il l*fc - ' . 278 JOT7RN15Y TO THE ^1 'HES was prudent to avoid; and, to say the truth, however habit may in most things produce a sort of callous indifference to danger, I had abundant ptDof this day that the rule does not always hold good, for the very e/i/e of my men were begin- ning to evince a cautiousness which was quite new to them; and the order fur encamping was executed with a very signi- ficant alacrity. Within a few hundred yards of us, nine white wolves were prowling round a herd of musk ox'jn, one of which was shot; but, being a bull, was too strongly scented to be eaten. As there was no possibility of making a portage, should it be necessary, on the side where we had encamped, at daylight of the following morning we pulled up stream to cross over, and see if it was more favourable on the other side. The descent broke over a fall live feet deep, opposite to a gloomy chasm in the rock; but as it did not reach (piite to the eastern side, the boat was enabled to pass it, and then ran the Wolf Rapid. Some of the animals whose name it bore seemed to be keeping a brisk look-out for what might happen. Several other rapids (for there was no end of them) work- ed their way between high rocks, which now, for the first time since the river had turned so much to the eastward, lay on that side; a circumstance that I thought augured well for a nor^jjierly bend at no great distance. But what most grati- fied me was the disappearance of the sand-hills, which I beheld as so many enemies to our cause, that were gradually leading us away to the wrong side of our object. My joy, therefore, may be imagined at seeing, as we advanced, that my hopes were, after all, likely to be realized; for the late suspicious trending to the eastward, almost in a
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