Slcetched by B. M'Cormich, B.N. 
Cape Daniell, bearing N.W. 
and plastic to take impressions, I came to the conclusion that the " Assistance " 
and " Pioneer " had taken them on their way up channel. Returning to the 
boat, we shoved oflf at 3 p.m., the sun glancing forth a momentary ray through 
the surrounding murky atmosphere, as we receded from the shore. On romiding 
the cairn point, we opened another small semicircular bay, strikingly resem- 
bling Clark Bay both in size and form ; and to which I gave the name of 
M'Clintock, after my friend, the distinguished Polar traveller, now commander 
of Her Majesty's ship " Intrepid." 
The coast, along which we had now to pull against a fresh northerly breeze, 
presented a very bold and striking aspect. Bluff headlands, rising precipitously 
from the water s edge to the height of six hundred feet and upwards, and 
skirted at the base by a narrow belt of shingly beach, profusely studded Avith 
stranded hummocks of ice. From the steep fronts of these magnificent chffs of 
the mountain limestone projected three or more horizontal tiers of buttresses in 
strong relief, the effect of which was much heightened by the tiers being bare 
of snow, and black— so contrasted with their white sides as to give them the 
appearance of some frowning and impregnable fortress, or imposing battery 
presented by the broadside of a stately three-decker. Between tw^o of these 
remarkable headlands, another very symmetrical bay opened out, bounded on 
the north by a wild, romantic-looking cape, towering upw^ards with smooth 
and swelling sides to near its summit, and then abruptly breaking up mto 
angular-shaped rocky fragments, forming a rugged, picturesque-looking crest, 
seven or eight hundred feet above the level of the sea. To this pretty bay 
I gave the name of Emery, after an old and much valued friend ; and to the 
south headland Cape Daniell, after another esteemed friend; both of whom 
have their names already enrolled in the annals of African discovery. I saw the 
tracks of bears and foxes upon the snow along the beach. 
Cornwallis Land, forming the opposite shore of Wellington Channel, piebald 
with snow, loomed dark and wildly through the mist, at the distance of between 
tAvcnty and thirty miles, yet I could distinctly make out the point forming its 
north-eastern extremity. Passed several white whales, a seal or two, and several 
large flocks of geese, the whole migrating to the south, a few dovekies ( Uria 
grijUe), fulmar petrel {Procellaria glacialis), glaucous and kittiwake gulls. 
At 6 P.M., observing a cairn on a low ridge of shingle, I ran the boat in 
between the grounded hummocks of ice on the point. Landed and found a tin 
cylinder containing a notice that the " Assistance" and " Pioneer" had passed on 
Sunday morning last at 10 o'clock, bound to Baillie Hamilton Island — " all 
well." 
Frf)m this we had a very prolonged and fixtiguing pull along a most dreary 
line of coast, closely packed witii grounded hunnnocks. The breeze increased 
