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part of a floor . timber, English oak, 7^ inches 

 thick ; it has been brought on board. 



SOth. — A gale of wind and deluge of rain 

 has detained the ship until this evening ; we are 

 now steaming up the inlet, having the old lady 

 and the boy on board as our pilots ; they are de- 

 lighted at the prospect of rejoining their friends, 

 from whom they were eflfectually cut off until 

 the return of winter should freeze a safe path- 

 way for them ; they had, however, abundance 

 of looms stored up en cache for their subsistence. 

 She has drawn me another chart, much more 

 neatly than the former, but so like it as to 

 prove that her geographical knowledge, and 

 not her powers of invention, have been taxed. 

 She is a widow ; her daughter is married, and 

 lives at a place called Igloolik, which is six or 

 seven days' journey from here, — three days up 

 the inlet, then about three days overland to the 

 southward, and then a day over the ice. 



Thinking it not quite impossible that this 

 Igloolik might be the place where Parry win- 

 tered in 1822-3, I told Petersen to ask whether 

 ships had ever been there ? She answered, 

 " Yes, a ship stopped there all one winter ; but 

 it is a long time ago." All she could distinctly 

 recollect having been told about it was, that 

 one of the crew died, and was buried there, and 



