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Bay. In a short time we ascertained that the strangers were 

 well-known English whalers, being no less than the famous Cap- 

 tain Parker, of the True-love, and his son, commanding the steam- 

 ship Lady Celia. They had come from Cornelius Grinnell Bay 

 in less than a day, leaving Captain Allen, of the Black Eagle, there. 

 Intelligence of our schooner's wreck had reached them at that 

 place a few days after it had occurred, an Esquimaux and his 

 wife having traveled by land and carried the news. 



Directly there was an opportunity I paid a visit to the new- 

 comers, starting from our ship early in the morning. Ugarng's 

 boat and crew took me there. The party consisted of himself, 

 his wife Nikujar, and child, Kokerjabin (Kudlago's widow), Ster- 

 ry, and myself, besides other Esquimaux. 



When we were one mile from Look-out Island the sun was lift- 

 ing his bright face from the sea. The whole ridge of mountains, 

 running southeasterly to '"Hall's" Island of Frobisher, was in 

 plain sight, covered with white, and as we approached them, no 

 opening into the harbor where the vessels were supposed to lie 

 could be seen. But Nikujar, being a capital pilot, knowing every 

 channel and inlet within two hundred miles of our anchorage, the 

 steering-oar was given to her ; and there, seated upon the logger- 

 head, with her pretty infant in its hood behind her neck, she steer- 

 ed us correctly to the spot. 



NIK-tT-JAE, THE BOAT- STEEEEK AND PILOT. 



