430 AN ESQUIMAUX VILLAGE. 



I gave the name of the enterprising navigator, Cap- 

 tain Inglefield, who iSrst passed the entrance to it. 

 The coast on the north side runs much farther south 

 than appears on the old charts ; and two conspicu- 

 ous headlands, which Inglefield mistook for islands, 

 I have designated on my chart by the names which 

 the supposed islands have on his. A cluster of islands 

 at the farther end of the gulf I called Harvard Islands, 

 in remembrance of the University at Cambridge, to 

 members of whose faculty I am indebted for many 

 courteous attentions while fitting out in Boston ; and 

 a range of noble mountains which rise from the head 

 of the gulf and with stately dignity overlook the 

 broad nier de glace^ holding the vast ice-flood in check, 

 I named the Cambridge Hills. 



On the south side of the Sound, toward which the 

 Harvard Islands seem to trend, there are two promi- 

 nent capes which T named respectively Cape Banks 

 and Cape Lincoln ; ^ while two deep bays are desig- 

 nated as Cope's Bay and Harrison Bay. Another, on 

 the north side, I called Armsby Bay. 



I had to reg-ret that I could not reach the further 

 end of the gulf The ice for about twenty miles re- 

 mained quite solid and impenetrable, so that I was 

 obliged to draw back. Skirting along the southern 

 coast we came upon the village of Itiplik and found 

 it inhabited by about thirty people. They were 

 living in seal-skin tents, three in number, and were 

 overjoyed to see us. Near by, there was a rookery 

 of auks similar to that near Port Foulke, which, to- 

 gether with the seal and walrus that were observed to 



I In honor of His Excellency N. P. Banks, Governor of Massachusetts, 

 and of Mis Honor F. W. Lincoln, Mayor of Boston, at the time of my 

 sailing, in 1860. 



