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nel or strait, which. I named Anderson Channel,* leading from 

 Kobinson Sound up toward Northumberland Inlet, was lost to 

 my view by the high land of Beekman's Peninsula. The obser- 

 vations I made at this point were quite numerous and important. 

 On the following day (27th) we continued our return, and at 5 



P.M. arrived at the ship, where Captain B , with four of the 



crew, had arrived the day previous from Cape True. 



On the 30th of June I started on a sledge trip to Cape True, 

 where most of the officers and crew of the George Henry were yet 

 staying. There I remained for several days, trying to form a 

 company of natives to go with me by boat to Countess of War- 

 wick's Sound. I succeeded in obtaining a company of eleven, 

 consisting of Miner and his new wife " Suzhi" — my old boat com- 

 panion on my voyage up Frobisher Bay — Kooperneung and his 

 two wives — for he had recently married a second — Sharkey and 

 his Jennie, young "Captain," "Bone Squash," and two Innuit 

 children — a girl and a boy. 



We left Cape True at 9 45 A.M. on the morning of July 13th, 

 and at 3 P.M. reached a small island near Oopungnewing, named 

 by me Ookijoxy JSTinoo ; thence, after a short stop, we went on to 

 Oopungnewing. My purpose in visiting this island was to hunt 

 for the " anvil," which, as I have already stated, had been thrown 

 from the south end into the water. It was just after the full 

 moon, and therefore the tides were rising and falling to their ex- 

 treme limits, near thirty feet ; at low water a wide shore was left 

 perfectly exposed, and nothing could have escaped my eye. I 

 sought carefully and with anxiety for the relic I so much desired 

 to obtain, but in vain ; it was not there. It was clear that the 

 "thick-ribbed ice" had embraced it, as it evidently had every 

 loose stone and heavy rock in that locality, and had carried it 

 away from the land in its grasp. 



On the following day, July 14th, we started for Kodlunarn, 

 where we remained till the 17th, during which time I occupied 

 myself in making researches for relics, investigating all that I 

 could which had a bearing upon the subject, besides making a com- 

 plete survey of the island. These days of hard work resulted in 

 the discovery of additional relics, confirming me in the opinions I 

 had previously formed, and which I have elsewhere in this vol- 

 ume expressed. In addition to what I had done before, I found 

 very clear evidences of the existence of a blacksmith's forge or a 

 * This channel I named after Captain Anderson, of the steam-ship China. 



