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declared to be made after the fashion of the White 
Goose Esquimaux, a tribe with whom his countrymen 
had had some trading communication, as has been 
mentioned in a former part of the Narrative. 
This morning we passed the embouchureof a pretty 
large stream, and saw the vestiges of an HEsquimaux 
encampment not abovea month old. Having obtained 
the latitude 68° 6’ 40" N., we recommenced our voy- 
age under sail, taking the precaution to embark all the 
pieces of willow we could collect, as we had found the 
drift wood become more scarce as we advanced. Our 
course was directed to a distant point, which we sup- 
posed to be a cape, and the land stretching to the 
westward of it to be islands ; but we soon found our- 
selves in an extensive bay, from which no outlet could 
be perceived but the one by which we had entered. 
After examining, however, from the top of a hill, we 
found a winding shallow passage running to the north- 
west, which we followed for a short time and then en- 
camped, having come twenty-three miles, north by 
east half east. . 
Some articles left by the Esquimaux attracted our 
attention ; we found a winter sledge raised upon four 
stones, with some snow-shovels, and a small piece of 
whalebone. An ice-chisel, a knife, and some beads, 
were left at this pile. The shores of this bay, which 
I have named after Sir George Warrender, are low 
