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 . on an adjacent hill, he com-posedly put on a blue cloak and set off afterthem j and though he got no deer, he broughtback some fine plover. The 25th was dark and gloomy, but our strayIndian failed not to come in with the fog, that had been more or less prevalent forthe last fourteen hours, became rather thickeras night drew on; but having now my guides,and judging that the men would suffer less intravelling than from lying inac
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 . on an adjacent hill, he com-posedly put on a blue cloak and set off afterthem j and though he got no deer, he broughtback some fine plover. The 25th was dark and gloomy, but our strayIndian failed not to come in with the fog, that had been more or less prevalent forthe last fourteen hours, became rather thickeras night drew on; but having now my guides,and judging that the men would suffer less intravelling than from lying inactive in their wetclothes, I started at 10 p. m. The Indians,always timorous, kept close along the land, andfixed us constantly amongst the bad and unsafeice, which now resembled spikes from two tothree inches long. Shoes were soon perforated, aswell as the pieces of rein-deer skin with the hairon which had been fastened round them as aslight protection to the feet. The party withthe boat very wisely kept farther out, and hadconsequently better ice, the surface of whichwas like a bed of madrepores, except that theupper edges were considerably OUR CHEERLESS SITUATION. 293 About midnight the guides hesitated to pro-ceed, on account of the dense fog: theythought they had already erred, and affectedto be fearful of misleading me ; but to thispretence I quickly put an end by directing theroute with the compass. It must be confessedthat the travelling was by no means agreeable ;for to say nothing of the darkness, the fogalmost wet us through, creating a chill whichexercise was unable to overcome. A wild rocky point which we made I recog-nised as one of my last years encamping places,and was not a little glad to find that we werewithin one march of Sand Hill Bay, where ourlabours on this lake would terminate. About amile further we stopped, and the boat arrived at7 of the 26th. Throughout the whole of this day not agleam of sunshine came to cheer our spirits ordry our we
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