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though bleached white from the effects of weather, 

 were in a good state of preservation. They were 

 in the usual shape of a grave stone. 



In the evening of the same day, taking my gun, 

 and accompanied by the mate and steward, I went 

 away to get some eider duck, flocks of which were 

 flying about. We succeeded in shooting eleven 

 king ducks, four long-tailed ducks, and several 

 looms and dovekeys. The long-tailed duck (Fu- 

 ligula glacialis) is much smaller than the eider, 

 being about the size of a widgeon, and having much 

 the same sort of plumage, but with long tail feathers 

 ending in a point like the boatswain bird. Having 

 got a good bag, I was anxious to obtain a view by 

 climbing the hill on the south side of the harbour, 

 which is about 600 feet high. 1 I induced my com- 

 panions to come with me, though we found the 

 ascent to be more difficult than it appeared, being* 



1 Sir John Ross climbed to the top of this hill, on the 2nd 

 of September, 18.32, at the time when he was vainly attempt- 

 ing to get out into Baffin's Bay, and was obliged to return and 

 winter at Fury Beach (see " Narrative of his Second Voyage," 

 p. 665). But it is not generally known that he then put a tin 

 case under a heap of stones, which was never found ; although 

 the officers and crews of the " Enterprise " and " Investigator " 

 were here for so many months in 1848-9. In the tin case Sir 

 John deposited a copy of verses which he had composed for 

 the occasion, and in 1852 he gave a copy of them to Mr. John 

 Barrow, M-ho has kindly forwarded it to me. A poetical effu- 



