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there was but a small part of the coast of this inlet 

 that we had not seen, and finding the examination 

 of it would be attended with difficulty, and would 

 occupy a long time, the boats did not ascend it. 

 The shoal which is off the entrance has no good 

 land-marks for it ; the bearings from its extremity 

 in two fathoms and a half of water are Cape Blossom, 

 S. 66° 40' E. (true) ; Western High Mount, N. 17° 

 30' W. (true) ; and the west extreme, a bluff cape, 

 near Cape Krusenstern, N. 37° 0' W. (true.) But 

 the best way to avoid it is to go about directly the 

 soundings decrease to six fathoms, as after that 

 depth they shoal so rapidly to two fathoms and a 

 quarter that there is scarcely room to put the ship 

 round. 

 Oct. On the 1st of October we landed upon a sandy 



point at the western limit of the inlet, and were 

 joined by a few Esquimaux who had their tents not 

 far off to the westward : they had communicated 

 with the boat two months before, and came again in 

 the expectation of getting a few more blue beads 

 and foreign articles for some nets and fish. They 

 immediately recognised such of the officers as they 

 had seen before, and were delighted at meeting 

 them. Some of the beads which they had obtained 

 were now suspended to different parts of their dress, 

 in the same manner as was practised by the Esqui- 

 maux of Melville Peninsula, and round their necks, 

 or were made into bracelets. They corroborated 

 the former account of the inlet, the length of which 

 they estimated a long day's paddle : our observa- 

 tions made it thirty-nine miles. At the back of the 

 point where we landed there was another inlet, to 

 the end of which they said their baidars could also 



