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Resolute and Intrepid got 10 lbs each marks - by Great from Melville Island
Bernier saw marks - Glen
in Byam Martin Island
Earl of Bathurst - Parry
Winter Harbor
Lat. 74° 47' 10"
Long 110 48 15-
Var 98° East
Provisions on Melville Island
for 66 men for 266 days
Two Ross Rifles 1000 pounds
of ammunition.
Foxes, wolves, caribou,
musk-oxen identified.
Up to end of Oct Bernier
killed 51 deer, 28 musk oxen,
2 seals, 17 ducks, 22 flamingo
2 bears, 4 birds, and 1 bear.
10 foxes
In 1853 Lieut. Mecham
of H.M.S. Resolute was travelling
across the newly-discovered
Land Island called after
H.R.H. Prince Patrick. Found
petrified trees cir. 3 feet.