PREFACE. VU 



having an opportunity of thanking Mr. E. 

 N. Kendall, assistant-surveyor, for the very 

 able way in which he has assisted me with 

 his observations, and in the plan of our 

 route. Mr. Edward Finden, by whom the 

 plates are engraved, has obligingly pre- 

 sented me with some etched outlines, co- 

 pied from sketches which I made of a few 

 of our acquaintance on the last voyage, and I 

 have here taken the liberty of introducing 

 them, as they give some idea of the cast 

 of the Esquimaux countenance. 



To Professor Barlow I beg to return my 

 thanks for the interesting paper in the ap- 

 pendix, on the observations which Mr. 

 Kendall and myself were enabled to make 

 on the magnetic errors of our compasses ; 

 and I am no less indebted to Dr. Hooker 

 of Glasgow, for his valuable communica- 

 tion on the few plants which I procured in 

 three short visits to the shore. 



