An Expedition in Arnhem Land in 1928

throughout the rest of the day. On these lakes and their connecting streams water was beginning to show on top of the ice, a fact which enabled us to dispense almost entirely with the use of fuel. A short stop was made at each of two native camps which were encountered along our trail. The natives reported themselves as three days out from the trading post, but as they move very leisurely this did not necessarily mean that it was any great distance. It was their intention to remain there for several days, during which time they hoped to secure enough meat, chiefly marmot, to ration them across Com? mittee Bay. After having travelled fifteen hours with the coast-line not yet in sight we built a rough snow and canvas shelter, where we spent the night. The next day our trail lay along the chain of lakes which had been our guide on the previous day. This watercourse discharges into the extreme western end of Repulse Bay, a small rocky hill immediately adjoining its mouth on the north being the site of the winter quarters used by Dr. Rae of the Hudson's Bay Company more than seventy years ago. The stone foundations of his building are still intact. After reaching the salt-water ice the north coast-line of Repulse Bay was followed in an easterly direction for 12 miles, when the Hudson's Bay Company and Revillon Freres fur posts were reached, and we were once again in touch with civilization

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