August, 1S64.1 Passage through Hudson's Straits. 49 



Resolution Island, known by the Eskimos as '^Todjon" Much float- 

 ing ice was passed through. Hall improved the delay in the ship's 

 course by taking the bearings of the prominent headlands along the 

 shores of the old ^^Mcta Incognita" of Queen Ehzabeth. Across the 

 strait through which they were sailing lay to the north his discov- 

 eries of the Frobisher relics in 1862. 



From the first of August to the 20th, the ship and her tender passed 

 through the changing experiences of Arctic navigation. Iler course 

 was kept within fifteen to twenty miles of the land. The first days of 

 the month were calm, offering opportunities for securing game on the 

 ice-floes which studded the strait. Hall and Eskimo Joe shot a num- 

 ber of oJq)as, the white web-footed sea-fowl so often found clustering 

 on Arctic clifi's. The petuJarhs, dove-kies, proved too shy. Seals were 

 seen at a distance. 



Grinnell Glacier — first seen and named on Hall's visit of August 

 21, 1860 — mirrored itself in the spaces of open water. It faded from 

 sight on the bright morning of the 7th. The long and uniform range 

 of white mountains on the north, the Terra Nievia of the old naviga- 

 tors, arrested the attention of all on board the Monticello. 



The ship's log of each day, as would be expected, showed much 

 the same record. For a few hours she worked onward under some- 

 thing of a favorable breeze ; or else it was tack, tack, one hour on 

 one course and the next upon the other, the wind dead ahead. At 

 times she bored her way through the pack ice, or she met an impassa- 

 ble barrier athwart her course, and then made fast to an iceberg or 

 floe, tying up thus usually at night. While very slowly nearing an 

 ice island on the evening of the 1st, her iron-plated bows had struck 



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