56 Expedition of Knight and Barlow. lAngnst, is64. 



in 1719, some of the wrecks of whose vessels were found fifty years 

 afterwards upon this island, he wished to explore it for relics of that 

 expedition* which might yet possibly be found. In Hearne's Travels 

 he had seen the statement that the remains of the houses built by this 

 party, as also the hulls of the ship and sloop were visible for many 

 years below the waters. 



He was at first landed with Ebierbing and To-koo-li-too on Depot 

 Island. Mate Chester, who accompanied them, estimated the whole 

 weight of his boat and outfit at only 1,400 pounds. The boat, built 

 by Rodgers of New London, was but 28 feet in length, with 5 feet 10 

 inches beam, and 26 inches depth. The mate and crew returned on 

 board the Monticello, and when, soon afterward, she left the harbor on 

 her first cruise for whales, the party on the island began their five 

 years' Arctic residence. A tent was erected on the western side, and 

 some observations were made for determining the position and for 

 marking out the adjacent coast line. On the 22d, the first game 

 secured, footed up for the day nine petularks and one goose. 



During the week which followed, several vessels, and among them 

 the Tender, Helen F., were sighted, apparently working their wa}^ up 

 to Rowe's Welcome ; and although the fog at one time hid them from 

 view, Hall was only the more delighted to find on the 23d the brig 



* Sickness and famine occasioned such havoc among the English that by the setting in of 

 the second winter their number was reduced to t^ycnty ; and on tlic Eslvinios visiting Marble 

 Island again, in the summer of 1721, they found five of the English only alive, and those in such 

 distress for provisions that tliey eagerly eat the seal's Jlesh aud whale's blubbej- quite raw as they 

 purcliased it from the natives. This disordered them so much that tliree of them died in a few 

 days; and the other two, though very weak, made a shift to bury them. These two survived 

 many days after the rest, and frequently went to the top of an adjacent rock and earnestly looked 

 to ibe stjuth and east as if in expectation of some vessels coming to their relief. After continuing 

 there a considerable lime, and nothing appearing in sight, they sat down close together and 

 •wept bitterly. At length one of the two died, and the other's strength was so far exhausted that 

 he fell down and died also tchilc allemjjtiiifj to dig a f/rave for his companion. — (Journey from Prince 

 of Wales' Fort, in Hudson's Hay, to the Northern Ocean, 17n7-177'2, by 8auin<i Ilcariir. lutrod., 

 \i. xxxi.) 



