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JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE THROUGH THE

noon they returned without having fucceeded in either obje&. We

“—-~—/_ were, however, in expeétation, that, as the wind blew very {trong, it

would force a paffage. About fun-fet, the weather became overcaflt,

with thunder, lightning, and rain.

Thurfday:8. The nets were taken up at four this morning with abundance of fith,

Friday 1 o

Saturday 20, We took up our nets, but without any fifh. It rained very hard

and we fteered North-Weft four miles, where the ice again prevented
our progres. A South-Eaft wind drove it among the iflands, in fuch a
manner as to impede our paflage, and we could perceive at fome diftance
a-head, that it was but little broken. We now fet our nets in four
fathom water. Two of our hunters had killed a rein-deer and its fawn.
They had met with two Indian families, and in the evening, a man be-
longing to one of them, paid us a vifit: he informed me, that the ice
had not ftirred on the fide of the ifland oppofite tous: Thefe people
live entirely on fifh, and were waiting to crofs the lake as {oon as it
fhould be clear of ice. |

This morning our nets were unproduétive, as they yielded us no more
than fix fifh, which were of a very bad kind. In the forenoon, the In-
dians proceeded to the large ifland oppofite to us, in fearch of game,
The weather was cloudy, and the wind changeable: at the fame time,
we were peftered by mufquitoes, though, in a great meafure, furrounded
with ice. Bee ho!

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during the night and this morning: neverthelefs, M. Le Roux and his
_ people went back to the point which we had quitted on the 18th, but

I did