“Opposite to us appeared another small bay, in the mouth of which is an island.”

SoutH Bentinck ARM

particularly as our provisions were at a very low ebb, and we had, as
yet, no reason to expect any assistance from the natives. Our stock
was, at this time, reduced to twenty pounds weight of pemmican,
fifteen pounds of rice, and six pounds of flour, among ten half-starved
men, in a leaky vessel, and on a barbarous coast. Our course from
the river was about West-South-West, distance ten miles.’

This bay, named by Mackenzie ‘““Porcupine Cove,’ is
now known as Green Bay. The “small bay’’ opposite is
South Bentinck Arm, a photograph of which, taken off
Green Bay, shews the island referred to by Mackenzie.

“Sunday, 21.—At forty minutes past four this morning it was low
water, which made fifteen feet of perpendicular height below the high-
water mark of last night. Mr. Mackay collected a quantity of small
muscles which we boiled. Our people did not partake of this regale,
as they are wholly unacquainted with sea shell-fish. Our young chief
being missing, we imagined that he had taken his flight, but, as we
were preparing to depart, he fortunately made his appearance from
ths woods, where he had been to take his rest after his feast of last
night.

“At six we were upon the water, when we cleared the small bay.
which we named Porcupine Cove, and steered West-South-West for
seven miles, we then opened a channel about two miles and a half wide
at South-South-West, and had a view of ten or twelve miles into it.”

13 P, 342, Mackenzie’s Voyages.
14 P, 343, Mackenzie’s Voyages.)

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