96 DESCRIPTION OF AN ESQUIMAUX TOMB. 



1S24. a whale, and the bones of other animals, were 

 Sept. lying scattered on the beach near a long for^ 

 saken winter hut, and Mr. Kendall found a 

 grave in which a body, apparently disinterred 

 by some animal, was lying with the head to 

 the north-west. Near the hut were a quantity 

 of stones ranged in pairs and forming a large 

 semi-circle, a short stone supporting a long 

 one, thus. 



The tide was observ^ed to flow rapidly between 

 two and three P.M., quickly filling all the 

 little bays, and the high water-marks on the 

 beach indicated a rise of twenty-three feet. 



The night being very fine, I determined on 

 running slowly at five or six miles' distance 

 from the shore, which appeared to trend N.b.w., 

 and to be guided by the regularity of the 

 soundings, which at midnight had increased 

 from thirty-three to forty fathoms. We had 

 steered up to this period by the moon and 

 pole-star. 



A.M. of the 12th, we gradually began shoal- 

 ing to thirty-two, thirty, twenty-six, and at four 

 A.M. to twenty-two fathoms ; when fancying we 

 were near some part of Southampton Island, 

 which we had not yet seen, I kept away a couple 



