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passing the Barrow River, they were drifted out 

 nine or ten miles from the land, the influence of 

 this river having probably thus set them out. On 

 the 30th they were close to Winter Island. 



" Thus had we," says Parry, " in a most singular 

 manner once more arrived at our old winter-quarters, with 

 scarcely a single successful exertion on our parts towards 

 effecting that object. The distance from Ooglit to our 

 present station was about one hundred and sixty miles along 

 the coast. Of this we had never sailed above forty, the rest 

 of the distance having been accomplished, while we were 

 immoveably beset, by mere drifting. The interval thus 

 employed having been barely eight days, gives an average 

 drift to the southward of above fifteen miles per day." — 

 p. 478. 



Being set fast in the ice in proceeding to the 

 southward, a strong westerly breeze on the 17th of 

 September allowed them to shape their course for 

 the Trinity Islands in a perfectly open sea. From 

 hence they ran down Hudson's Strait without 

 meeting with any obstruction, and on the 10th of 

 October entered the harbour of Bressay Sound in 

 Lerwick, where they enjoyed the " first trace of 

 civilized man that they had seen for seven and 

 twenty months." The kindness which they re- 

 ceived from these poor but hospitable people is thus 

 feelingly described : — 



" I feel it utterly impossible adequately to express the 

 kindness and attention we received for the three or four 

 days that we were detained in Bressay Sound by a conti- 

 nuance of unfavourable winds. On the first information of 



