228 JOURNEY TO THE SHORES 



White Goose Esquimaux, a tribe with whom 

 his countrymen had had some trading com- 

 munication, as has been mentioned in a 

 former part of the Narrative. 



This morning we passed the embouchure 

 of a pretty large stream, and saw the ves- 

 tiges of an Esquimaux encampment, not 

 above a month old. Having obtained the 

 latitude 68° 6' 40" N., we recommenced our 

 voyage 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 supposed to be a cape, and the land 

 stretching to the westward of it to be 

 islands ; but we soon found ourselves in an 

 extensive bay, from which no outlet could 

 be perceived but the one by which we had 

 entered. On examination, however, from 

 the top of a hill, we perceived a winding 

 shallow passage running to the north-west, 

 which we followed for a short time, and 

 then encamped, having come twenty-three 

 miles north by east half east. 



