Soon afterwards we landed on an island where the Esquimaux had erected a stage of drift timber, and stored up many of their fishing implements and winter sledges, together with a great many dressed seal, musk-ox, and deer skins.

Their spears, headed with bone and many small articles of the same material, were worked with extreme neatness, as well as their wooden dishes and cooking utensils of stone, and several articles, very elegantly formed of bone, were evidently intended for some game, but Augustus was unacquainted with their use.

We took from this deposit four seal-skins to repair our shoes and left in exchange a copper-kettle, some awls and beads.
We paddled all day along the coast to the eastward on the inside of a crowded range of islands and saw very little ice; the blink of it however was visible to the northward, and one small iceberg was seen at a distance.

A tide was distinguishable among the islands by the foam floating on the water but we could not ascertain its direction.

In the afternoon St.Germain killed on an island a fat deer which was a great acquisition to us; it was the first we had seen for some months in good condition.
Having encamped on the main shore after a run of thirty-seven miles we set up a pole to ascertain the rise and fall of the water, which was repeated at every halting-place, and Hepburn was ordered to attend to the result.