146 OFF CAPE WAEEENDEK. Chap. IX. 



CHAPTEE IX. 



Off Cape Warrender — Sight the whalers again — Enter Pond's 

 Bay — Communicate with Esquimaux — Ascend Pond's Inlet — ■ 

 Esquimaux information — Arctic summer abode — An Arctic 

 village — No intelligence of Franklin's ships — Arctic trading — 

 Geographical information of natives — Information of Eae's visit 

 — Imjirovidence of Esquimax — Travels of Esquimaux. 



Qth July, — To borrow a whaling phrase, we 

 are " dodging about in a hole of water " off 

 Cape Warrender. I recognise the little bay just 

 to the west of the cape where Parry landed in 

 September, 1824. The "immense mass of snow 

 and ice containing strata of muddy-looking soil " 

 is there still, and, I should think, had consider- 

 ably increased. Here his party shot three rein- 

 deer out of a small herd. We have narrowly 

 scanned the steep hill-sides with our glasses, but 

 without discovering any such inducement to 

 land. 



No cairns are visible upon Cape Warrender ; 

 the natives have probably removed them. Dense 

 pack prevents us from approaching Port Dun- 

 das or crossing to the southern shore. We all 

 find these vexatious delays are by no means 

 conducive to sleep. The mind is busy with a 



