JOURNEY TO THE SHORES 



OF 



THE POLAR SEA. 



CHAPTER I. 



Departure from England — Transactions at Stromness 

 — Enter Davis' Straits — Perilous Situation on the 

 Shore of Resolution Island— -Land on the Coast of 

 Labrador — Esquimaux of Savage Islands — York 

 Factory — Preparations for the Journey into the 

 Interior, 



On Sunday, the 23& of May, 1819, the 

 whole of our party embarked at Gravesend, 

 on board the ship Prince of Wales, belong- 

 ing to the Hudson's Bay Company, just as 

 she was in the act of getting under weigh, 

 with her consorts the Eddystone and Wear. 

 The wind being unfavourable, on the ebb 

 tide being finished, the vessels were again 

 anchored ; but they weighed in the night 



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