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388 Polar Expedition. 
Being, who never had an enemy, and whose chiefs had hitherto 
supposed themselves monarchs of the universe. There now only 
reiwnains to be discovered the termination, if it has one, of Mid- 
dleton’s Repulse Bay, and, a few degrees to the northward of 
it, to determine whether Greenland be an island, or joins Ame- 
rica; and this might with the greatest ease be done from the 
northernmost station of the Hudson’s Bay Company in any one 
season. 
The following are some additional particulars, which have ap- 
peared in the public journals, respecting the discoveries made by 
this branch of the expedition : 
The Jane, Capt. Young, of Montrose, sailed in company with 
the Isabella and Alexander from Lerwick, and learnt from Capt. 
Ross the following interesting particulars : ‘* After the last ac- 
counts from the Expedition, up to the 25th of July, when they 
had reached lat. 75 deg. 21 min. and long. 60 deg. 30 min. the 
weather cleared, and the variation of the compass increased so 
fast, that it became difficult to find out exactly how the ship was 
steering. The sea, with the exception of some ice-bergs, being 
completely clear of other ice, they reached lat. 763 deg. when 
they were unexpectedly opposed in their northern progress by 
terra firma. Here they met with a new race of Esquimaux, 
who, by their astonishment, appeared never to have seen a ship 
before. At first they were much afraid, and made signs for the 
vessel to fly away, thinking them huge birds of prey that had 
descended from the moon to destroy them. A few of the na- 
tives, however, were soon enticed on board, when they expressed 
their awe and wonder by hugging the masts, and other extrava- 
gant manifestations of imploration, as if to superior beings; at 
other times, on attentively surveying the ships, they laughed most 
immoderately. They were entirely unintelligible to the Esqui- 
maux whom Capt. Ross took out with him, although they seem 
to be of the same origin, their physiognomy being similar, but of 
rather a darker complexion—in their general appearance, Jan- 
guage, and manners approaching nearer to the natives of Kams- 
chatka, or the north-eastern extremity of Asia. Their mode of 
travelling is on sledges, drawn by dogs, and some of them were 
seen in this way going northward. They were in possession of 
knives, which, it is conjectured, they must have formed from the 
iron in its natural state, and which may, perhaps, at some future 
period, become an object of commerce with the natives of these 
hitherto unknown regions. The weapons they used for killing 
the smaller species of whales were the horns of the sea unicorn. 
' Here then, at the termination of this immense bay, which, till now, 
has been supposed to communicate with the Polar Basin, an en- 
tire new race of human beings has been discovered ; and the idea 
of 
