JOURNEY TO THE SHORES 
OF 
THE POLAR SEA. 
CHAPTER I. 
Departure from England — Transactions at Stromness — Enter 
Davis’ Straits—Perilous Situation on the Shore of Resolution 
Island—Land on the Coast of Labrador—Esquimaux of Savage 
Islands—York Factory—Preparations for the Journey into the 
Interior. 
May. ON Sunday, the 23d of May, the whole 
of our party embarked at Gravesend on board 
the ship Prince of Wales, belonging to the Hud- 
son’s Bay Company, just as she was in the act of 
getting under weigh, with her consorts the Ed- 
dystone and Wear. The wind’being unfavour- 
able, on the ebb tide being finished, the vessels 
were again ‘anchored; but they weighed in the 
night, and beat down as far as the Warp, where 
they were detained two days by a strong east- 
erly wind. 
_.» Having learned from some of the passengers, 
: gre were the trading Officers of the Company, 
that the arrival of the ships at either of ei esta- 
Vor. I. 
