Chapter X. 



MORE WHALES AT THE MIDDLE ICE. 



RID AY, June 20th.— Off Cape Walter 

 Bathurst. This forenoon, being close 

 to the " Erik," we had a visit from 

 Mr. Rickaby, a passenger on board 

 that ship. From him we received the information 

 that, after parting from us in Melville Bay, they 

 went up to Dairy m pie Island, a small islet between 

 Saunders and Wolstenholme Islands, off Cape 

 Athole ; and that they were there visited by some 

 Esquimaux, who came from the former island on 

 sledges. They could speak no English, but by 

 their manners they appeared as if they had recently 

 had intercourse with white men, and this idea was 

 corroborated by their having in their possession a 

 couple of American government rifles, with the date 

 1864 stamped upon them, and which, from their 

 clean and bright state, did not appear to have been 

 long in their hands. From what Mr. Rickaby could 



