46 , Journal of a Voyage through iftc 



CHAPTER V. 



The baggage removed from the rising of the water* One 

 of the nets driven away by the wind and current. Whales 

 are seen. Go in pursuit of them, but prevented from con- 

 tinuing it by the fog. Proceed to take a view of the ice. 

 Canoe in danger from the swell. Examine the islands* 

 Describe one of them. Erect a post to perpetuate our 

 irisit there. The rising of the water appears to be the 

 tide* Successful fishing. Uncertain weather. Sail among 

 the islands. Proceed to a river. Temperature of the 

 air improves. Land on a small island, which is a place 

 of sepulture. Description of it. See a great number of 

 wild foxvl. Fine view of the river from the high land. 

 The hunters kill rein-deer* Cranberries* £s?c. found in 

 great plenty. The appearance and state of the country. 

 Our guide deserts. Large flight of geese : kill many of 

 them. Violent rain. Return up the river. Leave the 

 channels for the main stream. Obliged to tow the canoe. 

 Land among the natives. Circumstances concerning them* 

 Their account of the Esquimaux Indians. Accompany 

 the natives to their huts. Account of our provisions. 



July, 1789.1 \\T _ _ . . ... _ 



Monday 13. 5 vv e had no sooner retired to rest last night, 



If I may use that expression, in a country where the sua 

 never sinks beneath the horizon, than some of the people 

 were obliged to rise and remove the baggage, on account 

 of the rising of the water. At eight in the morning the 

 weather was fine and calm, which afforded an opportunity 

 to examine the nets, one of which had been driven from 

 its position by the wind and current. We caught seven 

 poissons inconnus, which were unpalatable ; a white fish, 

 that proved delicious ; and another about the size of an 

 herring, which none of us had ever seen before, except 

 the English Chief, who recognized it as being of a kind 

 that abounds in Hudson's Bay. About noon the wind 

 blew hard from the Westward, when I took an observa- 

 tion, which gave 69. 14. North latitude, and the meridian 

 variation of the compass was thirty-six degrees Eastward* 



* The longitude has since been discovered by the dead 

 to be 135. West. 



