OF THE POLAR SEA. 229 



Some articles left by the Esquimaux at- 

 tracted our attention : we found a winter 

 sledge raised upon four stones, with some 

 snow-shovels, and a small piece of whale- 

 bone. An ice-chisel, a knife and some 

 beads were left at this pile. The shores of 

 this bay, which I have named after Sir 

 George Warrender, are low and clayey, and 

 the country for many miles is level, and 

 much intersected with water ; but we had 

 not leisure to ascertain whether they were 

 branches of the bay or fresh water lakes. 

 Some white geese were seen this evening, 

 aud some young gray ones were caught on 

 the beach, being unable to fly. We fired 

 at two rein-deer, but without success. 



On August 14th we paddled the whole 

 day along the northern shores of the sound, 

 returning towards its mouth. The land 

 which we were now tracing is generally so 

 flat, that it could not be descried from the 

 canoes at the distance of four miles, and is 

 invisible from the opposite side of the sound, 

 otherwise a short traverse might have saved 

 us some days. The few eminences that are 



