Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1825, 1826, and 1827

afterwards appeared arrived August Aurora banks beach Bear Lake River beds boats breeze Calm canoes Cape channel Chipewyan Clear cliffs Cloudy coast colour Coppermine River crew Dease Dease River deer direction distance Ditto Dog-Ribs drift East eastern eastward eight embarked encampment Esquimaux Expedition feet high fish Fort Chipewyan Fort Franklin Fort Good Hope Fort Norman gale ground Hare Indians hazy Herschel Island hills Hudson's Bay Company hundred feet hunters Indians Island July kaiyacks Kendall land latitude Lieutenant Back lignite limestone longitude Loucheux Mackenzie River main shore meat miles month morning mouth Needle night observed Ooligbuck party passed pemmican Point Portage rain rapid reached reef rein-deer REMARKS Richardson ridge rocks Rocky Mountains sails sandstone seen shade side Slave Lake snow soon specimens stone strata stream temperature tents thermometer travelled tribe voyage weather West westward wind winter