Chapter III

Receive a visit from a female party--Their persons and dress
described--Crossing the Isthmus--Drag one of the boats up a
stream--Succession of rapids--North Pole Lake--Find a plant fit
for fuel--Christie Lake--Flett Portage--Corrigal
Lake--Fish--Deer-scaring stones--White wolf--Stony
Portage--View of the sea--Exploring party sent in advance--Their
report--Long Portage--Difficult tracking--Miles Lake--Muddy
Lake--Rich pasturage and great variety of flowers on its
banks--Marmot burrows--Salt Lake--Visit Esquimaux
tents--Discouraging report of the state of the ice--Esquimaux
chart--Reach the sea--Ross inlet--Point Hargrave--Cape Lady
Pelly--Stopped by the ice--Put ashore--Find a sledge made of
ship-timber--Thick fog--Wolves--Walk along the shore--Remains of
musk-cattle and rein-deer--Nature of the coast--Danger from the
ice--Irregular rise of the tide--Deer on the ice--Fruitless
efforts to proceed northward--Cross over to Melville
Peninsula--Gale--Again stopped by the ice--Dangerous position of
the boat--Return to starting point--Meeting with our Esquimaux
friends at Salt Lake--Deer begun to migrate southward--Walk
across the isthmus to Repulse Bay 38