INTRODUCTION. 
they had, which chiefly confifted of whale’s blub- 
ber and feal’s flefh and train oil. When the 
Spring advanced, the Efquimaux went to the 
continent, and on their viliting Marble Hand 
again, in the Summer of one thoufand feven hun- 
dred and twenty-one, they only found five of the 
Englifh alive, and thofe were in fuch diftrefs for 
provifions that they eagerly eat the feal’s flefh 
and whale’s blubber quite raw, as they purchaf- 
ed it from the natives. This difordered them 
fo much, that three of them died in a few days, 
and the other two, though very weak, made a 
fhift to bury them. Thofe two furvived many 
days after the reft, and frequently went to the 
top of an adjacent rock, and earneftly looked to 
the South and Eaft, as if in expectation of fome 
_veflels coming to their relief. After continuing 
there a contiderable time together, and nothing 
appearing in fight, they fat down clofe together, 
and wept bitterly. At length one of the two 
died, and the other’s ftrength was fo far exhauit- 
ed, that he fell down and died alfo, in attempt- 
ing to dig a grave for his companion. The {culls 
€.2 and 
It is rather furprifing, that neither Middleton, Ellis, Chriftopher, 
Johnfton, not Garbet, who have allof them been at Marble Mand, and 
fome of them often, ever difcovered this harbour; particularly the laft- 
‘mentioned gentleman, who adiually failed qtite round the ifland in a very 
fine pleafant day in the Suminer of 1766. Bat this difcovery was referv- 
ed fora Mr, Jofeph Stephens! a man of the leatt merit { ever knew, 
though he then had the command of a veffel called the Succe’s, employed 
in the whale-fifhery; and in the year 1769, had the command of the 
Charlotte given to Lim,a fine brig of one hundred tons; when t was his 
mate. 
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