187G ESKIMO SETTLEMENT. 149 



At high-water the ship having been lightened of aU 

 the stores readily movable was hauled off. The rise 

 and fall of the tide was between thirteen and four- 

 teen feet. 



While hunting along the shores of the bay Feildcn 

 and Parr found traces of a large Eskimo settlement, 

 and from the grass-covered mounds, which marked the 

 sites of ancient dwellings, several articles made in bone 

 and ivory were obtained. 



We noticed that the water in the bay had a very 

 decided green tint, a colour which we had not met 

 with farther north. 



On the morning of the 22nd the ice was observed 

 to be leaving the coast. Accordingly, we proceeded 

 to the southward, keeping inshore of the pack. At 

 9.30 we passed Cape Joseph Good (named after Lieu- 

 tenant Aldrich's sledge captain), with a strong wind 

 blowing from the south-west up the main channel, but 

 the upper clouds flying from the westward, with thick 

 weather and snow falling. 



Passing Eichardson Bay a very large floe, a collec- 

 tion of smaller ones frozen solidly together during the 

 last few days, obliged me to steam two or three miles 

 offshore, but a water-channel led us in again near 

 Cape Collinson. 



At two o'clock, about the time of high- water, there 

 were many eddy-currents, rendering it difficult to 

 choose the best leads through the ice. On one occa- 

 sion, when the ' Alert ' was obliged to retreat from a 

 channel closing unexpectedly, we ran foul of the ' Dis- 

 covery,' carrying away one of her boat's davits, but 

 by smart and skilful management the boat was saved.. 



