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northward, being the first which Scoresby saw. It lay 

 at some distance, with an icy barrier interposed ; but 

 was found indented with deep and spacious bays, sus- 

 pected even to penetrate so far as to convert all this 

 range of coast into a cluster of islands. The inlet 

 which the former navigator had assigned to Sir Walter 

 Scott was believed by Clavering to be that discovered 

 by the Dutch mariner, Gale Hainkes ; but we have not 

 ventured to remove this last from the more northerly 

 position preferred by the scientific whaler. Other 

 openings, which occurred in proceeding towards the 

 north, were named by the captain Foster's Bay, Ardin- 

 caple, and Roseneath Inlets ; and he saw bold and high 

 land still stretching in this direction as far as the 

 seventy-sixth degree of latitude. 



In regard to the natives this commander was more 

 fortunate than his predecessor, who saw only their 

 deserted habitations. On landing at a point on the 

 southern coast of Sir Walter Scott's Inlet, he received 

 intelligence of Esquimaux having been seen at the dis- 

 tance of a mile, and hastened thither with one of his 

 officers. The natives, on seeing them, immediately ran 

 to the top of some rocks ; but the English advanced, 

 made friendly signs, deposited a mirror and a pair of 

 worsted mittens at the foot of the precipice, and then 

 retired. The savages came down, took these articles, 

 and carried them away to the place of their retreat ; but 

 they soon allowed the strangers to approach them, 

 though their hands, when shaken, were found to trem 

 ble violently. By degrees confidence was estiblished,. 

 and they conducted the visitors to their tent, five feet 

 high, and twelve in circumference, composed of wood 

 and whalebone. Their aspect and conformation, their 

 boats and implements, exactly corresponded to those 

 observed by Parry and Lyon in Hudson's Bay. A child, 



