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suspense depicted on the countenances of our part of the 

 group, till this was accomplished, for never were the tracings 

 of a pencil watched with more eager solicitude. Our sur- 

 prise and satisfaction may therefore, in some degree, be 

 imagined when, without taking it from the paper, Iligliuk 

 brought the continental coast short round to the westward", 

 and afterwards to the S.S.W., so as to come within three or 

 four days' journey of Repulse Bay. The country thus 

 situated upon the shores of the Western or Polar Sea is 

 called Akkoolee, and is inhabited by numerous Esquimaux ; 

 and half-way between that coast and Repulse Bay Iligliuk 

 drew a lake of considerable size, having small streams 

 running from it to the sea on each side. To this lake her 

 countrymen are annually in the habit of resorting during 

 the summer, and catch there large fish of the salmon kind, 

 while on the banks are found abundance of rein- deer. To 

 the westward of Akkoolee, as far as they can see from the 

 hills, which she described as high ones, nothing can be 

 distinguished but one wide-extended sea. Being desirous 

 of seeing whether Iligliuk would interfere with Wager 

 River, as we know it to exist, I requested her to continue 

 the coast -line to the southward of Akkoolee, when she im- 

 mediately dropped the pencil, and said she knew no more 

 about it."— pp. 197, 198. 



Well might Parry consider this new information, 

 thus unexpectedly opened to him, as a satisfactory 

 prospect of his soon rounding the north-eastern 

 point of America ; which, in point of fact, he sub- 

 sequently discovered to be as, and where, repre- 

 sented by this intelligent woman. To her alone, 

 therefore, is the merit due of the discovery of the 

 extreme northern boundary of America, or, which 

 is the same thing, the north-eastern extremity of 



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