192 JOURNEY TO THE SHORES 



in the morning, but a dense fog prevented 

 us from embarking until noon, when we 

 commenced our voyage on the Hyperborean 

 Sea. Soon afterwards we landed on an 

 island where the Esquimaux had erected a 

 stage of drift timber, and stored up many of 

 their fishing implements and winter sledges, 

 together with a great many dressed seal, 

 musk-ox, and deer skins. Their spears 

 headed with bone, and many small articles 

 of the same material, were worked with 

 extreme neatness, as well as their wooden 

 dishes, and cooking utensils of stone; and 

 several articles, very elegantly formed of 

 bone, were evidently intended for some 

 game, but Augustus was unacquainted with 

 their use. We took from this deposit four 

 seal-skins to repair our shoes, and left in 

 exchange a copper kettle, some awls and 

 beads. 



We paddled all day along the coast to the 

 eastward, on the inside of a crowded range 

 of islands, and saw very little ice ; the 

 " blink" of it, however, was visible to the 

 northward, and one small iceberg was seen 



