Two partridges were killed and these with some tripe de roche furnished our supper.

Notwithstanding a full explanation was given to the men of the reasons for altering the course, and they were assured that the observation had enabled us to discover our exact distance from Fort Enterprise, they could not divest themselves of the idea of our having lost our way, and a gloom was spread over every countenance.

At this encampment Dr.Richardson was obliged to deposit his specimens of plants and minerals collected on the sea-coast, being unable to carry them any farther.

The way made today was five miles and a quarter.
September 22.
After walking about two miles this morning we came upon the borders of an extensive lake whose extremities could not be discerned in consequence of the density of the atmosphere but, as its shores seemed to approach nearer to each other to the southward than to the northward, we determined on tracing it in that direction.

We were grieved at finding the lake expand very much beyond the contracted part we had first seen and incline to the eastward of south.