The flesh has a musky disagreeable flavour, particularly when the animal is lean which, unfortunately for us, was the case with all that we now killed.
During this day's march the river varied in breadth from one hundred to two hundred feet, and except in two open spaces a very strong current marked a deep descent the whole way.

It flows over a bed of gravel, of which also its immediate banks are composed.

Near to our encampment it is bounded by cliffs of fine sand from one hundred to two hundred feet high.
Sandy plains extend on a level with the summit of these cliffs, and at the distance of six or seven miles are terminated by ranges of hills eight hundred or one thousand feet high.

The grass on these plains affords excellent pasturage for the musk-oxen and they generally abound here.

The hunters added two more to our stock in the course of the night.
As we had now more meat than the party could consume fresh we delayed our voyage next day to dry it.