42 PASSAGE UP 



1824. men^ with more humanity than I had seen dis- 

 August. played on a similar occasion, shoved off also 

 to his assistance, one picking up his spears, 

 another his paddle, Src, while he, without ap- 

 pearing at all flurried, liberated himself very 

 ingeniously from his boat, by turning on his 

 back, and stretching his arms round her bot- 

 tom. We towed him to the woman's boat, 

 and there left him, in no very good humour, 

 and shivering with cold, to bale out his kayak. 

 This second division of visiters did not belong 

 to the same party as those who first came off, 

 but were established about fifteen miles from 

 them, in a deep bight to which they pointed. 

 We procured from them nearly the same ar- 

 ticles as were brought by the others, and I pur- 

 chased a little parcel of the skins of red foxes' 

 legs, which animals are not perhaps known to 

 frequent the shores of Hudson's Strait. The 

 night was very foggy, and we stood off and on 

 between the pack and the land. 



It was evident, from a momentary sight of 

 the land at daylight of the 13th, that we had 

 made some westing, but our progress was pain- 

 fully slow. In working during the day we 

 passed to windward of many closely-packed 

 streams of ice, generally composed of very 

 heavy masses ; but as the water lay in lanes, 

 were not without hopes of soon arriving in a 



