The weather was remarkably fine and the temperature so mild that the mosquitoes again made their appearance, but not in any great numbers.

Our distance made today was not more than six miles.
The next morning the net furnished us with ten white-fish and trout.
Having made a further deposit of ironwork for the Esquimaux we pursued our voyage up the river, but the shoals and rapids in this part were so frequent that we walked along the banks the whole day and the crews laboured hard in carrying the canoes thus lightened over the shoals or dragging them up the rapids, yet our journey in a direct line was only about seven miles.

In the evening we encamped at the lower end of a narrow chasm through which the river flows for upwards of a mile.

The walls of this chasm are upwards of two hundred feet high, quite perpendicular and in some places only a few yards apart.

The river precipitates itself into it over a rock, forming two magnificent and picturesque falls close to each other.