206 Thirty Years 
of Detention Harbor at nine P. M., having come 
twenty-eight miles, An old Esquimaux encampment 
was traced on this spot; and an ice chisel, a copper 
knife, and a small iron knife were found under the 
turf. I have named this cape after Mr. Barrow of the 
Admiralty, to whose exertioris are mainly owing the 
discoveries that have recently been made in Arctic 
geography, An opening on its eastern side has re- 
ceived the appellation of Inman Harbor, after my 
friend the Professor at the Royal Naval College, 
Portsmouth ; and to a group of islands to seaward of 
it, we gave the name of Jameson, in honor of the dis- 
tinguished Professor of Mineralogy at Edinburgh. 
We had much wind and rain during the night, and 
by the morning of the 26th a Sreat deal of ice had 
drifted into the inlet. We embarked at four and at- 
tempted to force a passage, when the first canoe got 
enclosed, and remained for some time in a very peril- 
ous situation ; the pieces of ice, crowded together by 
the action of the current and wind, pressing strongly 
against its feeble sides. A partial opening, however, 
occurring, we landed without having sustained any 
serious injury. Two men were then sent round the 
bay, and it was ascertained that instead of having 
entered a narrow passage between an island and the 
main, we were at.the mouth of a harbor, having an 
island at its entrance ; and that it was necessary to 
