2' 39" W.; variation of the compass 36 deg.

50' 47" E.; and dip of the needle 87 deg.

20' 35".
On August the 17th, having finished drying the meat, which had been retarded by the heavy showers of rain that fell in the morning, we embarked at one P.M.and crossed two lakes and two portages.

The last of these was two thousand and sixty-six paces long, and very rugged, so that the men were much fatigued.

On the next day we received the flesh of four rein-deer by the small canoe which had been sent for it, and heard that the hunters had killed several more deer on our route.