170 THE WHALEMAN ; OR, 



This place was called Calushelia, a small set- 

 tlement upon the seaboard west by north from 

 East River. We remained about twenty days 

 in this settlement, in company with Mr. Fisher 

 and his party. We were now, so far as we could 

 judge, about seventy miles south-east of the 

 place where our ship was wrecked. 



Since communication was now fairly open 

 between this settlement and the place where we 

 spent the first part of the winter, and since it 

 was known that intermediate huts were scattered 

 along in this direction, our men began to arrive 

 in small companies of four or five, as they could 

 thus be better accommodated by the way than 

 in larger numbers. 



A few weeks only had passed away before 

 there was a very perceptible improvement in the 

 general health of all of us. At this time, two 

 thirds of our entire company had arrived. We 

 thought it advisable, as soon as expedient, to 

 form another party, and proceed still farther to- 

 wards the south in the direction of East Cape. 



Accordingly, the captain, with Fisher, Osborn, 

 Blackadore, Norton, and three others, crossed the 

 river on the ice ; the river was just south of us. 

 On both sides of the mouth of this river there 

 were native huts. Where the river discharges its 

 waters into the sea or ocean, it is quite wide, 



