[ io6 ] 
Alt. ©L.L. 
29 5 °l 
Azimuth. 
67 30 
l variat. 
Alt. QL. L. Azimuth, 
25 IO 55 20 A 
variat. 
29 13 
64 20 
/38°44' 
24 34 
54 40 l 
2 a 58 
6 3 35 
24 8 
23 50 
52 30 ( 
5 1 45 J 
4 0° 52' 
Hence the mean of both gives the variation 39° 
48' W. 
About 10 there came along fide of us a boat, with 
feveral Efkimaux women, and two or three boys ; 
but no men. They traded with the people fome of 
their cloaths, and a few toys of their own making; 
fuch as models of their bows, harpoons, &c. but I 
faw nothing elfe that they had to trade ; nor had they 
any weapons, either of offence or defence, along 
with them. The boat is fo well defcribed and de- 
lineated in Crantz’s hiftory of Greenland, that it is 
entirely needlefs to attempt it here. 
This morning we faw the other (hips under the 
land, bearing from us N. N. E. and whom we joined 
about noon. 
The north fhore of thefe ftraits feems to be a 
chain of broken iflands, or rather, large, bare rocks ; 
one riling, as it were, in perfpe&ive above another. 
But I cannot help obferving, that from the accounts 
of authors, I expected to have found them entirely 
covered with ice and fnow ; whereas I found them 
entirely bare, except in fome very deep vallies. I 
apprehend, however, that this had not long been the 
cafe, as the water every where kept continually 
tumbling down t le rocks in prodigious torrents. 
I July the 25th. This afternoon I told 32 iflands 
of ice as I flood on the quarter-deck. This number 
is 
