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108 Letters written during the lute Voyage of Discovery frequently tore up the ground with his horns, turning round occasionally to face, but never to attack, his pursuers. A herd of twelve deer were also seen, of which three only, by much the largest, had horns, with which they pushed forward the others when attempting to stop. The birds observed were brent-geese, or barnacles, ptarmigans, plovers, boatswains, and snow-buntings ; several field-mice, of the kind called Hudson’s Bay mice, were seen and two caught. All over the island the holes and tracks of these little creatures were occasionally seen. One of them being pursued, and finding no hole near, turning round set him self against a stone, and bit the finger of the person who laid hold of him. These animals, it appeared, were not the only kind of inhabi tants of this favoured spot; for, on a point of land nearly a mile to the westward of the tents, and within a hundred yards of the beach, were found the ruins of six huts, once occupied by Esqui maux from the North American continent. They exactly re sembled the huts seen in the end of August last on Byam Martin Island, as well as those discovered in Captain Ross’s expedition of 1818, on the west coast of Greenland in Baffin’s Bay. These huts formed irregular circles, or oblongs, of rough stones five or six feet one way, by eight the other ; the walls only about two feet in height. The pavement consisted of flags of sandstone, and was overgrown with moss, as were the walls with lichen : but in what number of years such growth may be produced we have no way to ascertain. On one side of each hut was a small projection, perhaps the place for storing provisions, and near one of the huts was an inclosed place two or three feet square, which was, probably, the fire or cooking-place, for the marks of fire were visible on the stones. At 4 P. M. a breeze came on from the south with a fall of snow, and as we were setting out a herd of deer appeared, but we obtained none of them. Our intention was to steer in that direc tion till we came in sight of Table Hill, situated about five miles to the westward of Winter Harbour : but as we began to get wet from the sleet, we halted at 8 P. M., the wind coming away strong from the south-east quarter; and the night turned out very boisterous. Wednesday 14th, the weather clearing up, got again under way soon after 4 A. M., and crossed several eminences which com manded a good prospect of the rocky steep cliffs down which we had come in arriving at Liddon’s Gulf. Some ravines, also, ran across our route from north-east to south-west. At last getting sight of Table Hill we pushed forward for that point, and halted at 8 A. M., pitching our tents on a spot of dry ground on the bank of a ravine ; a great part of the country round seeming to be free from snow. The only birds seen were the snow-buntings,