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people met with on this voyage. It may be ob- 

 served that, on this occasion, by judicious manage- 

 ment on the part of Richardson, the necessity of 

 firing upon them was avoided. These poor creatures 

 had no doubt the same excuse as those who attacked 

 Franklin — they had never seen white men — and 

 never probably heard of the only one that their 

 great-grandfathers might have seen. Having got 

 rid of the Esquimaux, suddenly a violent gale arose, 

 that, by setting on the shore, obliged them to 

 take shelter in Refuge Cove, in lat. 69° 29', which 

 they left the following day ; but from the badness of 

 the weather, and the ice extending on the sea to the 

 northward, they made little progress. At their 

 halting place, on the 13th, the Doctor says, — 



" Myriads of mosquitoes, which reposed among the grass, 

 rose in clouds when disturbed, and gave us much annoyance. 

 Many snow-birds were hatching on the point, and we saw 

 swans, Canada geese, eider, king, arctic and surf ducks; 

 several glaucous, silvery, black-headed, and ivory gulls, 

 together with terns and northern divers. Some laughing- 

 geese passed to the northward in the evening, which may be 

 considered as a sure indication of land in that direction." — 

 p. 217. 



On the 14th they took shelter from the fog and a 

 heavy gale in a cove called Browel Cove, in lat. 

 70°, long. 130° 19'. It was supposed, the water 

 being brackish, that it proceeded from an immense 

 lake not far from the beach, known by the name of 



