The beach furnished no driftwood and we dispensed with our usual meal rather than expend our pemmican.

Several deer were seen but the hunters could not approach them; they killed two swans.

We observed the latitude 68 degrees 1 minute 20 seconds where we had halted to breakfast this morning.
August 13.
Though the wind was not much diminished we were urged by the want of firewood to venture upon proceeding.

We paddled close to the shore for some miles and then ran before the breeze with reefed sails scarcely two feet in depth.

Both the canoes received much water and one of them struck twice on sunken rocks.