We had the mortification to discover that two of the bags of pemmican which was our principal reliance had become mouldy by wet.

Our beef too had been so badly cured as to be scarcely eatable through our having been compelled from haste to dry it by fire instead of the sun.

It was not however the quality of our provision that gave us uneasiness but its diminution and the utter incapacity to obtain any addition.

Seals were the only animals that met our view at this place and these we could never approach.
Dr.Richardson discovered near the beach a small vein of galena traversing gneiss rocks, and the people collected a quantity of it in the hope of adding to our stock of balls, but their endeavours to smelt it were as may be supposed ineffectual.

The drift timber on this part of the coast consists of pine and taccamahac (Populus balsamifera) most probably from Mackenzie's or some other river to the westward of the Copper-Mine.
It all appears to have lain long in the water, the bark being completely worn off and the ends of the pieces rubbed perfectly smooth.