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I P H A P T E R V. . '
The baggage removed Jam t f e f f n g ofthewater. One o f the nets driven
away bythe wind and current.. Whales arefeen» Go infm fupt o f them,
but prevented from continuing it by the fog. Proceed to take a view
o f the ice. Canoe in danger from the fw'ell. , Examine the Janas.
t Defcribe one o f them. . Er.eEl a p o f to.perpetuate our vijit there. The
rifing o f the water appears to be the tide. , fuccefsfulfthing.' TTncertairt
weather. Sail among the ijlands. Proceed to a river. Temperature
o f the air improves. Land on a'jmatt i f and, which'is a place bfppul-
ture. Defcription o f it. See a great .number o f wildfowl. Fine mew
o f the river from the high land. The hunters kill rein-deer. Cran-
■ berries, f 3c, found in great plenty. The appearance and" Mate 'of the
country. Our guide deferts.. Large fig h t o f geefeft kill, manyfof
, them. Violent ruin. Return up the river. Leave the channels fo r the
main ftrearn. Obliged to tow the canoe. Land among ihenamies.'
Circumfances concerning them. Their account "of the EJquimaux
Indians. Accompany the natives to their huts. Account J f Qi/r
provifions.
W e had no fooner retired to reft laft night, if I may ufe that exprefi-
lion, in a country where the fun never finks beneath the horizon, than fome
of the people were obliged tp rife and remove the baggage, on account
of
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of the riling of the water.' At eight in the morning the weather was
ftiïë and calm; Which afforded an opportunity to exarttihe the nets, one
ofwhichhad been driven from its pofitibn by the wind and current.*
We caught fcven poiffons inconnus, which were unpalatable; a white
fifli, that proved delicious ; and; another about the fize of an herring,
which none of us had ever Teen before, except the Englilh chief, who
recognized it as being o f â kind that abounds in Hudfons Bay. .'About
faoon the wind blew hard from the Weftward, when I took an obfer-
vation, which gavé 6gl 14. North latitude and the meridian? variation o f
the cohipafs' was thirty-fix degrees Eaftward*.
This afternoon I re-afeended" the- hill, but could not difeovér.that the
fce had' bfeempufcin motion .by the~fdrce-bf the- wind. A t the fame time
I could juft diftinguifli two fmall-iflands in the ice, to the North-Weft
b)||éompafs. InqW; thought it neceffary %p give a new net to my men
to mount, rnorder to ’ obtain as much prpvifion as‘ poffiblé froth'the
witbi^-our*'ftores being reduced to about five hundred weight, which,
without5'4any other fupply* would not have fufficed for fifteen people
abovë’ tWefye days. One of the young Indiap^-howêyêr, was lb fortu--
nate as to find the*hét that had been miffing,*and which-contained three
o f the poiffons thccdnus. -
It blew very hard from the North-Weft finee the preceding evening; TadHay »4.
Having Tat up till three in the morning, I flfept longer than ufual; but
about eight-one of my men fa w a great many animals in the water, which
* Ik e longitude haSi fince been dilcovered by the dead Reckoning to be 135. Weft.
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