The Tree River of the Esquimaux which discharges its waters into this bay appears to be narrow and much interrupted by rapids.

The fishing-nets were set but obtained only one white-fish and a few bull-heads.

This part of the coast is the most sterile and inhospitable that can be imagined.

One trap-cliff succeeds another with tiresome uniformity and their debris cover the narrow valleys that intervene, to the exclusion of every kind of herbage.
From the summit of these cliffs the ice appeared in every direction.
We obtained the following observations during our stay: latitude 67 degrees 42 minutes 15 seconds North, longitude 112 degrees 30 minutes 00 seconds West, variation 47 degrees 37 minutes 42 seconds East.
The wind abating, at eight P.M.we reembarked and soon afterwards discovered on an island a reindeer, which the interpreters fortunately killed.

Resuming our voyage we were much impeded by the ice and at length, being unable to force a passage through a close stream that had collected round a cape, we put ashore at four A.M.On the 24th several stone fox-traps and other traces of the Esquimaux were seen near the encampment.