52 RUNNING DOWN THE 



1824. amongst the ice^ on which many walruses were 

 Aufi^ust. lying, arrived on board at thirty minutes past 

 four^ when I learnt that two others of these 

 animals had been killed. We now stood away 

 south-west for a distant point of high land, 

 w^hich I imagined to be the Cape Pembroke of 

 Sir Thomas Button. The situation of the 

 point on which we landed, differs so much from 

 the position assigned by Baffin to Sea-Horse 

 Point, that I imagine he did not see this low 

 part of the coast, but the mountainous land to 

 the north-east, which answers more nearly to 

 his latitude. The point on which we had 

 landed was called after Mr. Leyson (assistant 

 surgeon) ; and a broad strait of about thirty 

 miles, which runs between this and Cape Pem- 

 broke, received the name of Evans' Inlet, — 

 after Mr. Evans, purser of the Griper. 



The soundings in which the ship had worked 

 at five miles from the shore, varied from fifty 

 to thirty-five fathoms, muddy bottom. I am 

 thus particular in stating our soundings on this 

 day, as they are the commencement of con- 

 stant labour at the leads, and also as a proof 

 of the careless manner in which the old charts 

 of the coast of Southampton Island have hi- 

 therto been marked ; for it is in them laid 

 down as a bold ])recipitous shore, having from 



