VII. 



PACIFIC AND BEERING'S STRAIT. 2/5 



muddy bottom. This cove^ which I liave named after chap. 

 his relation, Captain Marryat, R.N. is the estuary of 

 a river, which has no doubt contributed to throw up 

 the point. 



After Lieutenant Belcher had constructed a plan of 

 the cove, he proceeded to Cape Lisburn ; the weather 

 still thick, and the wind blowing at S.W. He neverthe- 

 less effected a landing upon the north side of the Cape, 

 and observed its latitude to be 68^ 52' 3" N., and the 

 variation to be 32o 23' E. From thence he kept close 

 along the shore, for the purpose of falling in with 

 the land expedition, and arrived off Icy Cape on the 

 19th, when he landed and examined every place in the 

 hope of discovering some traces of Captain Franklin. 

 He found about twenty natives on the point living in 

 tents, who received him very civilly, and assisted him 

 to fill his water casks from a small well they had dug 

 in the sand for their own use. The yourts, which ren- 

 der this point remarkable at a distance, were partly 

 filled with water, and partly with winter store of 

 blubber and oil. 



From Icy Cape he stood E.N.E. ten miles, and then 

 N.E. twenty-seven, at which time, in consecjuence of 

 the weather continuing thick and the wind beginning 

 to blow hard from the south-west, he hauled offshore, 

 and shortly fell in with the main body of ice, which 

 arrested his course and obliged him to put about. It 

 blew so strong during the night that the boat could 

 only show her close-reefed mainsail and storm-jib, 

 under which she plied, in order to avoid the ice on one 

 side and a lee-shore on the other : the boat thus press- 

 ed leaked consid«M-ably, and kept the crew at the pumps. 



On the 21st August, the weather being more mo- 

 derate, he again made the ice, and after keeping along 



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