iO journal of a Voyage through the 



I took soundings at an hundred yards from the island, 

 when we were in twenty-one fathom water. Here we 

 found abundance of cranberries and small spring onions. 

 I now dispatched two men for M. Le Roux, and his peo- 

 ple. 



Sunday 21. A Southerly wind blew through the night, 

 and drove the ice to the Northward. The two men whom 

 I had sent to M. Le Roux, returned at eight this morning ; . 

 they parted with him at a small distance from us, but the 

 wind blew so hard, that he was obliged to put to shore. 

 Having a glimpse of the sun, when it was twelve by my 

 watch, I found the latitude 61. 34. North latitude. At 

 two in the afternoon, M. Le Roux, and his people arriv- 

 ed. At five, the ice being almost all driven past to the 

 Northward, we accordingly embarked, and steered West 

 fifteen miles, through much broken ice, and on the out- 

 side of the islands, though it appeared to be very solid to 

 the North-East. I sounded three times in this distance, 

 and found it seventy-five, forty-four, and sixty fathom 

 water. We pitched our tents on one of a cluster of small 

 islands that were within three miles of the main land^ 

 which we could not reach in consequence of the ice. 



We saw some rein-deer on one of the islands, and our 

 hunters went in pursuit of them, when they killed five 

 large and two small ones, which was easily accomplished, 

 as the animals had no shelter to which they could run for 

 protection. They had, without doubt, crossed the ice 

 to this spot, and the thaw coming on had detained them 

 there, and made them an easy prey to the pursuer. This 

 island was accordingly named Isle de Carrebceuf. 



I sat up the. whole of this night to observe the setting 

 and rising of the sun. That orb was beneath the horizon 

 four hours twenty-two minutes, and rose North 20 East 

 by compass. It however, froze so hard, that during the 

 sun's disappearance the water was covered with ice half a 

 quarter of an inch thick. 



Monday 22. We embarked at half past three in the 

 morning, and rounding the outside of the islands^ steered 

 North-West thirteen miles along the ice, edging m for the 

 main land, the wind West, then West two miles ; but it 

 blew so hard as to oblige us to land on an island at half 

 past nine, from whence we could just distinguish land to 

 the South-East, at the distance of about twelve leagues ; 

 though we could not determine, whether it was a con- 



