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leagues during the night ; finding ourselves off the 

 Wollaston islands, at the entrance of Navy Board 

 Inlet." Still they persevered, and the help of an 

 easterly breeze which sprang up on the 26th, and 

 gradually freshened, promised in earnest to take 

 them, as at last it did, into Prince Regent's Inlet 

 on the 27th; and by beating up, they came to 

 the entrance of Port Bowen, " where," says Parry, 

 " for two or three days past, I had determined to 

 make our wintering place ; if, as there was but little 

 reason to expect, we should be so fortunate as to 

 push the ships thus far." The old process of cutting 

 a canal in the ice for the reception of the ships was 

 resorted to, and as Parry states, " On the evening 

 of the 1st of October we had accomplished enough 

 for our purpose, and the ships were warped into 

 their winter stations, which we had the satisfaction 

 to think were extremely favourable for an early 

 release in the spring." 



Nothing remarkable was observed in the passage 

 through Lancaster Sound. A boat was sent on 

 shore in a bay near Cape Warrender. Dr. Neill 

 reports, " the beach was covered with fragments of 

 flesh-coloured feldspar, closely studded with red 

 garnets, in size of a pea to that of a walnut ; the 

 rock was of gneiss formation, the greater part of it 

 composed of large plates thickly set with garnets. 

 The surface of the ground was almost entirely 

 covered either with snow or, in absence of it, with 



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