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ARCTIC RESEARCH EXPEDITION. 



ing, " White man, we saw your namesake here nearly three hund- 

 red years ago ; where is he now ?" 



Nearly south of North Foreland are three islets, the nearest one 

 fourth of a mile off shore. The largest is a quarter of a mile 

 long, and is distinguished by a prominent rock that looks like a 

 huge bee-hive, with smaller ones on each side of it. The others 

 are quite small, being respectively about seventy and a hundred 

 and forty fathoms in length. In every direction about here I saw 

 recent traces of reindeer and rabbits, also circles of stones, and 

 other signs of Innuits having lived here long ago. 



The following are some of the measurements which I made 

 while on this morning walk: The width of North Foreland 

 (which is the eastern extremity of Hall's Island), measuring it a 

 short distance back from the cliff, is about a quarter of a mile. 

 Hall's Island extends a mile farther eastward than " Hall's small- 

 er island." The latter is eight tenths of a mile in length. 



After spending an hour at this interesting spot, taking bearings 

 of distant objects, and observing the general appearance of the lo- 

 cality, I reluctantly retraced my steps to our encampment, a dis- 

 tance of two miles, where I found on the sledge every thing in 

 readiness for our departure. 



At 9 19 A.M. we set out on our return to Eescue Harbor. 

 When out on the sea-ice, we stopped by the edge of the floe, next 

 the open water, at the carcass of the ookgook killed by Ebierbing 

 the day before. In the dilemma which followed as to what we 

 should do with it, I proposed that it should be carried to land and 



buried under heavy stones, supposing that Captain B , then 



at Cape True with his men, might send a boat's crew round by 

 Frobisher Bay, which was all open water, and get the blubber, 

 and perhaps the meat, and also some of our deposited seals. But 

 Ebierbing assured me that it mattered not what might be the size 

 or the weight of the stones covering it, Ninoo would find out the 

 deposit and rip it up. It was finally concluded, to save only the 

 skin. To effect this, they girdled the animal's body, cutting the 

 skin transversely in widths of about five or six inches, and then 

 slipped it off in cylinders, each of which was to be afterward cut 

 spirally, making a long strip of skin, which is of great value for 

 walrus and seal lines, and dog-traces. This ookgook was an ob- 

 ject of more than common interest. Though so easily dispatched 

 — the rifle ball, on penetrating his skull, causing instant death — 

 yet, as Ebierbing pointed out, it bore numerous marks of wounds 



