CONTENTS. 



PAGE 



England— Unfavourable state of the Ice at the Eastern entrance of the Strait— Proceed to 

 the Southward— Ships beset and drifted up Lyon Inlet — Decease of Mr. George Fife — 

 Final release from the Ice, and arrival ia England — Remarks upon the practicability of a 

 North-West Passage . \ . . . . 459 



Some further Account of the Esquimaux of Melville Peninsula and the adjoining Islands ; 



more particularly Winter Island and Igloolik ...... 492 



Vocabulary of Esquimaux Words, S^c. 



. 561 



DIRECTIONS TO THE BINDER FOR INSERTING THE PLATES. 



Situation of His Majesty's Ships Fury and Hecla 



at Igloolik, 1822-23 . . Frontispiece 



Canoe of the Savage Islands, Hudson's Strait, to 

 face pa^e ...... 14 



Plan ofDnke of York Bay .... 48 



Plan of Hurd Channel 74 



Cutting into Winter Island, October, 1821 .118 

 Interior of an Esquimau.^ Snow-hut, Winter 



Island, 1822 160 



Grcupe of Esquimaux, 1822 .... 163 

 An Esquimaux watching a Seal . . .171 

 Manner of liolding the line wlien a Walrus is struck 172 

 Esquimaux listening at a Seal-hole, &c. . 173 



An Esquimaux watching a Seal-hole . . 172 

 An Esquimaux creeping into the Passage of a 



Snow-hut 187 



Esquimaux Chart, No. I. . . . .197 



Ditto ditto, No. 11. . ... 198 



Arnaneelia, a native of Winter Island, 1822 . 207 



Esquimaux Chart, No. HI 252 



Fall of the Barrow 2GC 



Summer Tents of the Esquimaux. Igloolik, IS22, 271 

 An Esquimaux of Igloolik, in a bird's-skin jac- 

 ket, IfC. ... ... 274 



Sledges of the Esquimaux . . . 290 



Western outlet of tlie Strait of the Fury and Hecla 351 

 Esquimaux House built of ice . . . 35S 

 Takkcelikkeeta, an Esquimaux of Igloolik, 1823 391 

 Groupe of Esquimaux at Igloolik . . . 403 

 Croupe of Esquimaux at Igloolik, 1823 . . 418 

 Nakahu and his Wife Oomna . . . 436" 



Esquimaux building a Snow-hut . . . 49!) 

 Esquimaux killing Deer in a Lake . . .508 



Esquimaux Children Dancing, Igloolik, 1823 530 

 Esquimaux Implements, Weapons, &c.(Fig. 1 to 



12.) .548 



Ditto ditto (Fig. 13 to 27.) . .550 



The Charts, tfc, at the end of the hook to be placed 

 in the following order : 



General Chart, shewing the track of the Fury and 



Hecla, &c. &c. 

 Chart of the Northern Shore of Hudson's Strait, &r.&c. 

 Chart of the North-eastern Coast of America, &c. from 



Lat. 64f to 67° W. 

 Ditto from Latitude 07° 40- to 70° 15'. 

 Appearances of Lands, No. 1. 

 Ditto, . . No. 2. 



Ditto, . . No. 3. 



Ditto, , . No. 4. 



