548 DISCOVERIES OF CHARLES DUNCAN. 17.91. 



evidently occasioned by his great predilection for 

 keeping near the land. 



Mr. Duncan remained the winter in Churchill 

 River, which he did not leave till the 15th July 

 following ; he then entered Chesterfield Inlet, and 

 returned to Churchill about the end of August ; 

 his crew, as he states in .his journal, having 

 mutinied, who were encouraged by his first ofBcer, 

 a servant of the Hudson's Bay Company. The 

 mortification he suffered at the failure, and the 

 grief and vexation occasioned b}^ his turbulent 

 crew, had such an effect on his mind, that a violent 

 fever was the consequence ; and the voyage proved 

 completely abortive. Thus terminated the last, 

 and, it may also be said, the least efficient of all the 

 expeditions (that of Gibbons perhaps excepted) 

 for the discovery of the north-west passage.* 



* MS. Journal of Mr. Duncan. 



