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 . aters ofsprings. Crossing two rivulets, whose lively ripplesran due north into the rapid, the thought occur-red to me, that these feeders might be tributariesto the Thlew-ee-choh; and, yielding to that pleas-ing emotion, which discoverers, in the first boundof their transport, may be pardoned for indulg-ing, I threw myself down on the bank, and dranka hearty draught of the limpid water. From aheight a mile forward, the line of stream coul
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 . aters ofsprings. Crossing two rivulets, whose lively ripplesran due north into the rapid, the thought occur-red to me, that these feeders might be tributariesto the Thlew-ee-choh; and, yielding to that pleas-ing emotion, which discoverers, in the first boundof their transport, may be pardoned for indulg-ing, I threw myself down on the bank, and dranka hearty draught of the limpid water. From aheight a mile forward, the line of stream could bedistinctly traced into an open space, which, as itcontracted, inclined to the north ; and this, withthe appearance of two plovers, exactly resemblingthe noisy plover (Charadrius vocifemis) aboutPort Enterprise, convinced me that I stoodon part of the continuous height of land whichextends hither from the borders of the CopperMine River. The men not making their appear-ance, I raised a dense smoke, by firing the moss,to apprise them of my situation; and returnedto the tent, passing, on my way, a white wolf,which was sneaking towards a deer. A smoke. THE THLEW-EE-CHOH. 143 seen to rise from behind the sand-hills anounced,shortly afterwards, the approach of the men; andat a late hour, the Indian first, and afterwards theothers, came in. De Charloit groaned under theweight of a musk-oxs head and horns, while hiscompanions were more usefully laden with thespoils of some good fat deer. They had fallen on the river the second day,and described it as being large enough for along its banks by a wide lake, andtwo tributary streams as large as itself, theyascertained that it was really the same stream,the source of which I had thus accidentally dis-covered in the Sand-hill Lake close to us; whichwas now distinguished by the name of SussexLake, after His Royal Highness the Vice-Patronof the expedition. I had reserved a little grogfor this occasion, and need hardly say w
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