X PREFACE. 



The next article, which I trust will be read with interest, is an 

 additional Sketch of the Esquimaux, whom we discovered in 

 Boothia Felix, and whom we named Boothians. This is given as 

 an introduction to the biography of the most remarkable, whose 

 portraits are given to represent both their colour, features, and 

 costume, and, I may add, of the inhabitants of the most remote 

 corner of the globe : added to which are a vocabulary and dialogues 

 in the Esquimaux, Danish, and English languages, carefully 

 corrected by my friend, Mr. Kijer, according to the works of 

 Fabricius. The reports on Chronometers, which follow, will be 

 perused with attention by every practical navigator, as well as the 

 reports on the various instruments which accompanied the expe- 

 dition. 



My new theory of the Aurora is respectfully submitted to the 

 public, as the result of a long series of observations carefully made 

 uuder very advantageous circumstances, in Scotland, as well as 

 during my late residence of four winters in the Arctic Regions, 

 and have been read at the British Association in Dublin. 



The Natural History has been compiled by Commander (now 

 Captain) James Clark Ross, whose acquirements in that branch of 

 science are well known and acknowledged ; and it will there be 

 found manifest that something has been done which must interest 

 the naturalist. 



