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CHAPTER III. 



Native Dogs. Red Snow. Cape Dudley Digges. Game. Cape 

 Wurrender. Beechey Island. Rejoined by Captain Kellett. Cape 

 Biley. Find Pieces of Whale. Parting Ceremonies. Wellington 

 Channel. Queen's Channel. Mount Percy. Winter Quarters. 



July 31. During the night, we had been making good 

 progress, threading the mazes with facility, although oc- 

 casionally bewildered by fog ; but as the sun gained 

 power, this gradually gave way to a beautifully clear morn- 

 ing, and before eight we were able to distinguish the huts 

 of the natives under Cape York : no traces, northerly 

 or southerly, of our consorts. Running close under the 

 southern side of this high cape, we noticed the sledges 

 driving down to the floe-edge, and, accompanied by Dr. 

 Lyall, I went in the gig to visit them, taking presents 

 of knives, scissors, needles, thread, looking-glasses, saws, 

 beads, etc. It was at this Cape that Captain Ommanney 

 examined for traces of Sir J. Franklin, and brought away 

 the native boy called Erasmus York. I much regretted 

 the absence of the Esquimaux vocabularies, none having 

 been supplied to this Squadron, and therefore was totally 

 unable to make them comprehend that three other large 

 vessels were expected ; they betrayed no signs of having 



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