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ARCTIC RESEARCH EXPEDITION. 



The reader may observe that the capital letters here and there 

 appended to the descriptions in the list refer to spots of ground 

 indicated by those letters respectively in Plan No. 1 of the Chart 

 Sheet. The form and general appearance of each of the twenty 

 articles are exhibited in the preceding engraving, taken from a 

 photograph. Of course they are reduced in size. 



On the 18th, after coasting by Tikkoon, visiting the bluff Ne- 

 pou-e-tie Sup-bing, crossing the Countess of "Warwick's Sound, and 

 entering Victoria Bay, I landed at Bkkelezhun, where I had found 

 the heap of coal in the previous fall. Here I again carefully ex- 

 amined the place, and on the next day commenced my return, en- 

 camping at night near a bay or inlet — Sabine Bay* — on the east 

 side of Sharko. While exploring this inlet I was led to the dis- 

 covery of a monument, built within the previous five or six years, 

 on the top of a mountain in the rear of our encampment, and 

 which I learned from the Esquimaux had been erected by an En- 

 glish whaling - captain named Brown. From this monument I 

 took numerous compass bearings and sextant angles, and then, re- 

 turning to the boat, started back for Cape True, where we arrived 

 in the evening. Without delay, I proceeded up, along the coast, 

 one mile, and renewed my observations to connect with those 

 made at Brown's Monument, and thus — as far as lay in my power 

 with the instruments I possessed — completed the link of bearings 

 and sextant angles that now extended all round Frobisher Bay. 

 I now wanted to make another trip to the "southeast extreme"- — 

 the Hall's Island of Frobisher. On my mentioning my desire to 

 the natives, all of them, at first, refused to accompany me, owing 

 to their dread of the place ; but at length Sharkey, the bold In- 

 nuit who was of my company in the late sledge-journey up Fro- 

 bisher Bay, consented to go, if I would allow his wife to be of the 

 party. Mate Lamb and four of the ship's crew also went with 

 me, as the ship's company were doing nothing, except now and 

 then capturing a walrus and eating it, simply living at Cape True 

 until the ice in Field Bay should break up and free the ship. 

 They remained at Cape True to be near the walrus grounds. Our 

 only means of subsistence consisted of such products as the coun- 

 try afforded. About 100 pounds of raw walrus meat was placed 

 in the bottom of the boat, and, besides that, every man had enough 

 of the same food, cooked, to last two days. 



* Named by me after Edward Sabine, of London, England. The entrance to Sa- 

 bine Bay is in lat. 62° 39' N., long. 65° 05' W. 



