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SECOND VOYAGE FOR THE DISCOVERY 



Sept. l)een determined by rowing through at high water, and returning to the 

 ^r^> ships by that route. To this arm of the sea I gave the name of Hoppner's 

 Inlet ; and the more extensive one which I had lately returned from ex- 

 ploring, was distinguished by the name of my brother-officer, Captain 

 George Francis Lyon. 



While a boat from each ship was preparing for our next excursion, I com- 

 municated to Captain Lyon my wishes respecting the movement of the ships, 

 directing him to follow me down the south-western land as soon as it might 

 be practicable, that no time might be lost in prosecuting the voyage either in 

 the direction I was now about to pursue, should I there discover an outlet to 

 the westward, or failing to do so, to the eastward of the land now in sight, 

 which in that case would prove to be a part of the continent. With a view 

 also to save time on my return, I requested Captain Lyon to endeavour to 

 ascertain whether a portion of land to the south-eastward of the inlet, on 

 which it was our lot afterwards to winter, was insular or connected with the 

 main land. These and other necessary arrangements being shortly made, I 

 left the ships at thirty minutes after four, P.M., accompanied by Messrs. 

 Ross, Sherer, and Mac Laren, the two latter gentlemen in the Hecla's boat, 

 the whole party being victualled for nine days. 



Previously however to my commencing the account of our next boat-ex- 

 cursion, I gladly avail myself of some extracts from Captain Lyon's Journal 

 during the time of my late absence, to complete the narrative of proceed- 

 ings up to this period. 



" The ships having been principally stationary during the time of Captain 

 Parry's absence, the remarks Avhich I am enabled to offer must be chiefly 

 confined to such observations on this part of the coast as I had then an 

 opportunity of making. I must first, however, briefly notice the proceedings 

 of the ships during that interval. 



" Previous to Captain Parry's leaving us, he had expressed to me his 

 wish that the ships should, as soon as convenient, be removed to some 

 more commodious anchorage than that in which we lay, provided I suc- 

 ceeded in finding one on the eastern shores of the inlet. I therefore 

 occupied two days in examining the coast to the north-eastward, but did 

 not succeed in finding any spot so well sheltered as the one in which we 



