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setting against our stern and rudder) we proceeded, followed at a 
long distance by the Beluga, which joined us in the afternoon at. 
Camden Bay,and we anchored there for the night. We found that. 
the Beluga in attempting to follow us had gotten on an ice-foot, 
or protruding spur, and bent her propeller-blades, and had finally 
to seek another lead out, to the westward of where we had ram- 
med through. As we ran from off Lion reef to Camden bay we 
sighted the beautiful ranges of mountains close to the coast known 
as the Franklin and Romanzoff mountains, making an agree- 
able change in the topography of the shore, which had been low 
and monotonously flat since leaving Point Hope and the vicinity 
of Cape Lisburne. We found here that the shore-line was put. 
upon the charts too far north, as our position near Flaxman island, 
on the west side of Camden bay, was well inland of the coast-line 
and reefs. Camden bay was the last wintering place of Collinson, 
in the Enterprise, upon his return from his search for Sir John 
Franklin, and here we fell in with the track of this distinguished 
navigator, whose cruise is so little known and whose efforts have 
been so much eclipsed by his fellow voyager, McClure, who has 
the distinction given him of being the actual discoverer of the 
Northwest passage, and who was, indeed, with his little body of 
men in 1850-1854, the first as well as the last to pass from the: 
Pacific to the Atlantic, north of the American continent. 
Upon along point named Collinson point, and upon the neighbor- 
ing island known as Barter island, are to be found, during the 
summer, encampments and rendezvous of Eskimos, who meet there 
for purposes of trade, similar to the same rendezvous in Kotzebue 
sound. Here the Alaskan and the Mackenzie river Eskimos meet, 
also the Lucia or Prat river Indians, who are nomads and come 
from the vicinity of the Porcupine and Prat rivers, and whose: 
winter rendezvous and habitation is at the Rampart house, a 
Hudson Bay Company’s station and Church of England mission,, 
upon the Porcupine. They are mostly professing Christians and 
are related to the Athabascans, or Rock mountain Indians, in 
family. ‘There are no permanent settlements here or elsewhere 
between the vicinity of Herschel island and Point Barrow. The 
country is sterile, affording but little upon which to live, the sea 
also having little or no animal life in its waters. The Eskimos 
give to this part of the Arctic ocean a native name which signifies. 
the sea where there is always ice. 
