Capt. Sabine’s Remarks on Capt. Ross’s Work. 371 
wrote to Captain Ross, to request that he would give me an op- 
portunity of correcting any thing he might design to publish as 
mine or on my authority. 
**On the appearance of Captain Ross’s book I perceived that 
he had appropriated this paper ; much of the information con-. 
tained therein being published, not only without acknowledge- 
ment, but in the first person. Page 121, 122, 123, 132, are 
copied almost verbatim from this document ; wherever he has 
ventured upon apparently even a trivial change of expression, he 
has fallen into error, which betrays the want of originality. I give’ 
an instance of this:—Where he is speakiug of an animal called’ 
the amarok, (mis-printed ancarok) he remarks, ‘J cannot find 
it to be mentioned by writers on Greenland.’ The original: 
sentence was, ‘I have never seen a description of it by writers 
on Greenland.’ The change is unfortunate ; it is mentioned both 
by Crantz and Egede, writers whose works were on board ; but 
it is not described by either, for they had only heard of its exist- 
ence from Esquimaux.”’ 
Captain Ross had returned, as already noticed, the ohserva- 
tions which Captain S, had sent him on the ship’s daily latitude 
and longitude, with an account of the going of the chronometers; 
“not however (according to Capt. S.) until he hadused the latter 
in making up an account which he has published as his own.’ 
Capt.S. produces evidence of this, andthen proceeds—** This one 
fact is proof sufficient, that although Captain Ross would not 
publish the account I had sent him, ‘ because he had not all my 
observations,’ he still would and did use it to make up one 
which should appear his own. But in altering it for this pur- 
pose, he has introduced mistakes and contradictions which de- 
stroy the whole.” 
** Capt. Ross having thus availed himself so extensively of my 
papers and observations in making his book, I might have ex- 
pected in ordinary courtesy to have been well spoken of by him, 
rather than otherwise. He could not indeed conveniently have 
returned me acknowledgements for papers which he preferred 
should appear under’ another name; but it certainly renders it 
the more unreasonable, that he has gone out of his way to make 
me ‘a Naturalist’ for the purpose of showing by my note 
that I considered my pretensions to that honour as very slight. 
That Captain Ross was under no mistake as to the true nature 
of my official duties is shown in his letter of the 12th of February 
(I beg the reader to refer to it). It is Captain Ross’s own tes- 
timony, that long after the voyage was over, so far from being in 
error as to my appointment, he enumerates, rather minutely in« 
deed, the branches of science on which I was actually employed, 
and does not even mention Natural History amongst them. The 
Aa2 letter 
