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AKCTIC RESEARCH EXPEDITION. 



A DESPEBATE PULL. 



pulls sent the boat within that island cove, where all was still as 

 a summer lake. " Heaven be praised !" said I; and there was oc- 

 casion for gratitude, for not ten minutes after nearly all the rocks 

 in the course we had made were above water. Soon after getting 

 on shore, the boat was left high and dry by the receding tide, and 

 in another hour we could see the bottom of the bay for miles, one 

 mass of boulder and shingle. The different islands could now be 

 visited by walking to them dry-shod. No ship, and hardly a 

 boat, except with much care, could venture up this side of the 

 bay. It was only by watching, and taking advantage of the tide, 

 that even our small boat could be navigated to the head of Fro- 

 bisher Bay. 



I may here mention the singular action of the tides. While on 

 our way hither I had heard the roar of waters, as if a heavy surf 

 were beating on the shore, and I several times asked Suzhi what 

 it meant. Her reply was u Tar-ri-o" meaning "the sea;" but as 

 no severe storm had raged sufficiently to cause such an uproar of 

 the waters, I replied, " Tarrioke na-me. KoongP' 1 — not the sea; it 

 is the river. Thereupon she appealed to her companions, both 

 of whom confirmed her statement, saying it was the sea. When 

 we were upon the island I was convinced that they were right. 

 The sea — that is, the waters of the bay — came rushing up on 

 the flood tide, and went out with the ebb in the impetuous 

 manner already described. It will be recollected that I doubt- 

 ed Koojesse's judgment on the day we left our twelfth encamp- 

 ment, and crossed with a view of proceeding to Aggoun. He ob- 



