﻿236 ESTUARY OF THE MACKENZIE. August, 



CHAP. VIII. 



ENTER THE ESTUARY OF THE MACKENZIE. — INTERVIEW WITH 



THE ESKIMOS. — REMARKS ON THAT PEOPLE ^WINTER-HOUSES 



NEAR POINT WARREN. — COPLAND HUTCHISON BAY. FLAT 



COAST WITH HUMMOCKS. — LEVEL BOGGY LAND. MIRAGE. 



A PARTY OP ESKIMOS VISIT US. POINT ATKINSON. KASHIM. 



— OLD WOMAN. — OLD MAN. — YOUNG MEN. — CAPE BROWN. — 



ESKIMOS. — RUSSELL INLET. — CAPE DALHOUSIE. SABINE XEMA. 



LIVERPOOL BAY. NICHOLSON ISLAND. — FROZEN CLIFFS OF 



CAPE MAITLAND. ROCK PTARMIGAN. ESKIMO TENTS. UAR- 



ROWBY BAY. BAILLIE's ISLANDS. RIVER OF THE TOOTHLESS 



FISH OR BEGHULA TESSE. — ESKIMO OF CAPE BATIIURST. 



THEIR SUMMER AND ITS OCCUPATIONS. — SHALE FORMATION 

 OP THE SEA-COAST. 



August 2)rd^ 1848. — Having given some verbal 

 instructions to the crews of the boats, respecting 

 their conduct in the presence of the Eskimos, we 

 embarked at four in the morning, and, crossing a 

 shallow bar at the east end of a sand-bank, stood 

 through the estuary between Richard's Island and 

 the main, with a moderate easterly breeze, which 

 carried us gradually away from the main shore. 

 About an hour after starting, we perceived about 

 two hundred Eskimos coming off in their kaiyaks, 

 carrying one man each, and three umiaks filled 

 with women and old men, eight or ten in each. 

 The kaiyaks are so easily overbalanced, that the 



