over to the fouthern fhore for protellion againft the fouth-eall wind,
which had now become fo violent, that it was late in the evening before
they had palled the fouthernmoft village; and after they had proceeded
about three miles to the eaftward of it, they relied for the night.
Although the party had been a conliderable time within light of the
village o f thefe unfriendly people, not a Tingle individual had been feen;
but they were heard making a moll hideous and extraordinary noife in
their houfes, the found of which reached the refting place of our party,
by whom it was fuppofed, that fome perfon of confequence had been
hurt by the Ihot fired the preceding evening at the large canoe, and
which not improbably had been the occafion of their hafty retreat. In
the morning of the 10th they were vilited by an old Indian man, and a
boy, who after receiving fome prefents went about their bufinefs, and
our party proceeded to the arm leading to the north-eall from Stephens s
palfage, having its weltern point of entrance, which I have called
P o i n t S a l i s b u r y , fituatedin latitude 58“ 11', longitude 226°3', in
which the great quantity of floating ice, with a llrong northerly wind
againll them, fo retarded their progrefs, that a palfage was with great
difficulty effeCled; the weather here was feverely cold, with frequent
fhowers of fleet and rain. Prom its entrance it extended N. 11 Rir about
13 miles, where the Ihores fpread to the eaft and well, and formed a
bafon about a league broad, and 2 leagues acrofs, in a N.w. and s. r.
direction, with a fmall ifland lying nearly at its north-eall extremity.
From the Ihores of this bafon a compaCl body of ice .extended fome dif-
tance nearly all round; and the adjacent region was compofed of a clofe
connefted continuation o f the lofty range of frozen mountains, whofe fides,
almoll perpendicular, were formed intirely of rock, excepting clofe to
the water fide, where a few .fcattered dwarf pine trees found fufficient
foil to vegetate in; above thefe the mountains were wrapped in undif-
folving frolt and fnow. From the rugged gullies in their fides were
projected immenfe bodies of ice, that reached perpendicularly to the
furface of the water in the bafon, which admitted of no landing place for
the boats, but exhibited as dreary and inhofpitable an afpeCl as the imagination
can poflibly fuggelt. The rife and fall of the tide in this lituation
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was very conliderable, appearing to be upwards of eighteen feet. The A‘J ^
examination of this bafon, &c. engaged the party until near noon of the 1---- -----
1 x th, when they returned along the eallern fhore, which is a continuation
of the fame range of lofty mountains riling abruptly from the water
fide; by dark they reached the ifland mentioned on the 7th, as lying in
the middle of Stephens’s palfage; here they took up their lodging for the
night, which was very Itormy from thefouth-eallward, and attended with
a heavy rain. In the morhing of the 12th the wind became more moderate,
but the rain continued with an extremely unpleafant erofs Tea,
which the violence of the wind during the night had oceafioned, This
greatly retarded their progrefs down the palfage, the eallern lhore of
■ which was found to be much indented with fmall bays, and to take a general
direClion from afpot oppofite to the ifland-they had quitted-.s. 4 1 e .,
about- twelve miles, to a point which I named P o in t S t y if. man, forming
the north-well point of a harbour, fituated in latitude.5P°'53 >
gitude. 226° 22'; the oppofite point of its entrance lying from it s. 33 e„
at the diltance of 2 miles. This harbour, which obtained the name of
P o r t S n e t t i .si-iam, firlt extends about a-league from its entrance in a
north-eall direction, where on each fide the Ihores form an extenfive
cove, terminated by. a Tandy beach, with a fine llream of frelh water.
On- the north-well fide of entrance is a fmall cove, in which there is alfo
a run of water, with an. Met lying before it. The Ihores are high and
fteep, and produce very few trees. - Several finokes were feen, but none
of the inhabitants made their appearance.. From the fouth point.of this
port-, which I called P o i n t A n m e r , the fhore takes a direction s. 29-t.,
nine or ten miles, to a point, that obtained the name of P o i n t C o k e ,
and which forms the north point of a deep, bay, about four miles- wide,
which I called H o l k h a m B a y ; this the party did not reach until the
morning of the 1.3th, when, nearly in the middle of it, were found
three- fmall lflands ; to the wefternmoft of which a lhallow bank extended
from each fide of the bay,, which is bounded by the Hill continued
lofty range-of mountains. Much floating ice was, feen within the iflands.
From point Coke, in a direClion .s, 43 w., two miles and an half, are
two fmall rocky filets, nearly, in the middle of the branch,, and from
the