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declared to be made after the fashion of the White 

 Goose Esquimaux, a tribe with whom his countrymen 

 had had some trading communication, as has been 

 mentioned in a former part of the Narrative. 



This morning wo passed the embouchure of a pretty 

 large stream, and saw the vestiges of an Esquimaux 

 encampment not above a month old. Having obtained 

 the latitude 68° 6' 40" N., we recommenced our voy- 

 age under sail, taking the precaution to embark all the 

 pieces of willow we could collect, as we had found the 

 drift wood become more scarce as we advanced. Our 

 course was directed to a distant point, which we sup- 

 posed to be a cape, and the land stretching to the 

 westward of it to be islands ; but we soon found our- 

 selves in an extensive bay, from which no outlet could 

 be perceived but the one by which we had entered. 

 After examining, however, from the top of a hill, we 

 found a winding shallow passage running to the north- 

 west, which we followed for a short time and then en- 

 camped, having come twenty-three miles, north by 

 east half east. 



Some articles left by the Esquimaux attracted our 

 attention ; we found a winter Bledge raised upon four 

 stones, with some snow-shovels, and a small piece of 



whalebone. An ice-chisel, a knife, and some beads. 



were left at this pile. The shores of this bay, which 

 I have named after Sir George Warrender, are low 



