CONTENTS. 



England — Unfavourable state of the Ice at the Eastern entrance of the Strait — Proceed to 

 the Southward— Ships beset and drifted up Lyon Inlet — Decease of Mr. George Fife — • 

 Final release from the Ice, and arrival in England — Remarks upon the practicability of a 

 North-West Passage . ' . i . . 459 



Some further Account of the Esquimaux of Melville Peninsula and the adjoining Islands ; 



more particularly Winter Island and Igloolik . . . . . . 492 



Vocabulary of Esquimaux Words, #c. 



.561 



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DIRECTIONS TO THE BINDER FOR INSERTING THE PLATES. 



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Situation of His Majesty's Ships Fury and Hecla 



at Igloolik, 1822-23 . . Frontispiece 

 Canoe of the Savage Islands, Hudson's Strait, to 



face page 14 



Plan of Duke of York Bay . i . .48 



Plan of Hurd Channel 74 



Cutting into Winter Island, October, 1821 . 118 

 Interior of an Esquimaux Snow-hut, Winter 



Island, 1822 160 



Groupe of Esquimaux, 1822 .... 163 

 An Esquimaux watching a Seal . . . 171 

 Manner of holding the line when a Walrus is struck 172 

 Esquimaux listening at a Seal-hole, &c. . 173 

 An Esquimaux watching a Seal-hole . . 172 

 An Esquimaux creeping into the Passage of a 



Snow-hut 187 



Esquimaux Chart, No. I. . . . .197 



Ditto ditto, No. II. . ... 19S 



Arnaneelia, a native of Winter Island, 1822 . 207 



Esquimaux Chart, No. Ill 252 



Fall of the Barrow . . . . . 266 



Summer Tents of the Esquimaux. Igloolik, 1822, 271 

 An Esquimaux of Igloolik, in a bird's-skin jac- 

 ket, $0. ...... 274 



Sledges of the Esquimaux . » . 290 



Western outlet of the Strait of the Fury and Hecla 351 

 Esquimaux House built of ice . . . 358 

 Takkeelikkeeta, an Esquimaux of Igloolik, 1823 391 

 Groupe of Esquimaux at Igloolik . . . 433 

 Groupe of Esquimaux at Igloolik, 1823 .. .418 

 Nakahu and his Wife Oomna ... 436 



Esquimaux building a Snow-hut . . . 499 

 Esquimaux killing Deer in a Lake . . 508 



Esquimaux Children Dancing, Igloolik, 1823 530 

 Esquimaux Implements, Weapons, &c. (Fig. 1 to 

 rJjkkli ' - —3. _ ^ v-ay • U i ■» •}.,.,; ; JSjp 

 Ditto ditto (Fig. 13 to 27.) . 550 



The Charts, fyc, at the end of the book to be placed 

 in the following order : 



General Chart, shewing the track of the Fury and 



Hecla, &c. &c. 

 Chart of the Northern Shore of Hudson's Strait, &c.&c. 

 Chart of the North-eastern Coast of America, &c. from 



Lat. 64>f to 67° 40'. 

 Ditto from Latitude 67° 40' to 70° 15'. 

 Appearances of Lands, No. 1. 

 Ditto, . . No. 2. 



Ditto, . ' .No. 3. 



Ditto, , . No. 4. 



