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to accompany the travellers on my sledge as far as the head of Quilliam J 82: 

 Creek, and by victualling them thus far on their journey, enable them to 

 gain a day or two's resources in advance. Another object which I had in 

 view was to endeavour to find a lake mentioned by Toolemak ; who assured 

 me that if I could dig holes in the ice, which was five feet thick, plenty of 

 large salmon might be caught with hooks, an experiment which seemed at 

 least well worth the trying. 



Our first shooting-parties, being relieved en the 5th, brought with them a Thur. 

 hundred and twenty ducks which, as well as all other game that might 

 be procured this season except venison, 1 directed to be served as an 

 extra allowance to the officers and men. These proved the more acceptable 

 in consequence of our usual supply of the hearts, livers, and kidneys of the 

 walrus having lately failed us, the Esquimaux having little or none to spare. 

 So accustomed had we been, indeed, to this supply, that the sudden failure 

 of it was esteemed a greater loss than we could have supposed possible a 

 twelvemonth before. We were much shocked about this time to hear of the 

 death of poor Togolat, at a station somewhat to the southward of Ooglit. 

 About six weeks before this she had been unwell at Igloolik, when Mr. Ed- 

 wards, having seen and prescribed for her, recommended that she should be 

 brought to the ship. I proposed this to Ewerat, and offered to send my 

 sledge for her and to lodge them both in my cabin, to all which he seemed 

 to agree ; but with a degree of caprice almost unaccountable, even in a 

 savage, set off the very next morning to the southward. Here, as we heard 

 from time to time, she continued constantly ailing; but Ewerat still moved 

 further and further out of our reach, and at length lost his wife to whom he 

 was certainly very much attached. We regretted the death of this poor 

 woman extremely, for she was one of our first and principal acquaintance, 

 and we knew that our friend Ewerat would sadly feel her loss. 



On the 7th, the weather being more favourable than before, Captain Lyon Sat. 

 and myself set out to the westward at half-past eleven A.M., and the ice 

 proving level, reached Khemig at half-past five ; when it was satisfactory to 

 find that the route followed by Captain Lyon on his journey with Toolemak 

 was precisely that which I had supposed, every feature of the land, of which 

 the fog had before scarcely allowed him a glimpse, being now easily recog- 

 nised and every difficulty cleared up. Continuing our journey among the 

 Coxe Islands till seven o'clock, we landed upon one of them, and were 

 not sorry to find abundance of water on every rock, though on the loose 



