In the Arcti 



trance into iliis Bound, which I have oamed in } n >m »r 

 of Lord Viscount Melville, the First Lord of the Ad- 

 miralty. It is thirty miles wide from east to v. 

 and twenty from north to south ; and in coa 

 we had Bailed eighty-seven and a quarter geographi- 

 cal miles. Shortly after the tenl Mr. 

 k reported from the steersmen that both 



had sustained material injury during this day's VOJ 



I found upon examination that fifteen til 

 first can m ■ oi them in two pla 



and that the Becond canoe was so loose in th 

 that its timbers could not be bound in the usual 

 cure manner, and consequently there was danger of its 

 hark separating from the gunwales it' exposed to a 



Distressing as were these circumst 

 they gave me less pain than the du that our 



people, who had hitherto displayed, in following us 

 through dangers and difficulties no less novel than ap- 

 palling to them, a coura ad our expectati 

 now felt apprehensions for their safety, which 

 their minds that they w, : strained 

 evi n by the • of their officers from expressing 

 them. Their tear-, we imagined, had been principally 

 ted by the interpret! Germain and Adam, 



who from the OUtset had foreboded every calamity ; 



and we now Btrongly Buspected that 'their recent want 

 of success in their hunting excursions, had pr< 



