The other Indians walked along the banks of the river.

Throughout this day's voyage the current was very strong, running four or five miles an hour, but the navigation was tolerable and we had to lighten the canoes only once, in a contracted part of the river where the waves were very high.

The river is in many places confined between perpendicular walls of rock to one hundred and fifty yards in width, and there the rapids were most agitated.

Large masses of ice twelve or fourteen feet thick were still adhering to many parts of the bank, indicating the tardy departure of winter from this inhospitable land, but the earth around them was rich with vegetation.

In the evening two musk-oxen, being seen on the beach, were pursued and killed by our men.