INTRODUCTION. 
not been taken from the place in which they 
were originally laid. ‘The remains of the houfe, 
though pulled to pieces by the Efquimaux, for 
the wood and iron, are yet very plain to be feen, 
as alfo the hulls, or more properly fpeaking, the 
bottoms of the fhip and floop, which lie funk in 
about five °fathoms water, toward the head of 
the harbour. The figure-head of the fhip, and 
alfo the guns, €s’c. were fent home to the Com- 
pany, and are certain proofs that Mefirs. Knight 
_and Barlow had been loft on that inhofpitable 
ifland, where neither ftick nor ftump was to be 
feen, and which lies near fixteen miles from the 
main land. Indeed the main is little better, be-- 
ing a jumble of barren hills and rocks, deftitute 
of every kind of herbage except mofs and grafs; 
and atthat part, the woods are feveral hundreds 
of miles from the fea-fide. 
In the Summer of one thoufand feven hundred 
and fixty-nine, while we were profecuting the fifh- 
ery, we faw feveral Efquimaux at this new har- 
bour ; and perceiving that one or two of them 
were greatly advanced in years, our curiofity 
was excited to afk them fome queftions concern- 
ing the above fhip and floop, which we were the 
better enable to do by the affiftance of an Efqui- 
maux, who was then in the Company’s fervice 
as a linguift, and annually failed in one of their- 
veffels in that chara@ter. The account which we 
received from them was full, clear, and unre- 
C ferved, 
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