PACIFIC AND BEERING’S STRAIT. 
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a small fence erected round the flag-staif, that they were ill, or had CHAP, 
received hurts. XIX. 
On the return of the first boat our conjectures as to the fate of the Sept. 
barge were confirmed ; but with this difference, that instead of having 
been lost upon the coast to the northward, she had met her fate in 
Kotzebue Sound, and we had the mortification to find that three of the 
crew had perished with her. Thus, at the same time that we were 
consoling ourselves, in the event of our misfortunes of the preceding 
day terminating disastrously, that we should receive relief from our boat, 
her crew were anticipating assistance from us. 
From the report of Lieutenant Belcher, who commanded the barge, 
it appears that after quitting Chamisso Island on the 12th ultimo, he 
proceeded along the northern shore of the Sound, and landed upon 
Cape Krusenstern, where he waited a short time, and not seeing the 
ship, the weather being very thick, he stood on for Cape Thomson, 
where he came to an anchor, and replenished his stock of water. He 
met some natives on shore who informed him that the ship had passed 
to the northward (which was not true), and he therefore pursued his 
course ; and finding the weather thick, and the wind blowing strong 
from the S. E., brought to under the lee of Point Hope, and examined 
the bay formed between it and Cape Lisburn, where he discovered a 
small cove, which afforded him a convenient anchorage in twm fathoms 
muddy bottom. This cove, which I have named after his relation. 
Captain Marryat, B. N. is the estuary of a river, which has no doubt 
contributed to throw up the point. 
After Lieutenant Belcher had constructed a plan of the cove, he 
proceede;d to Cape Lisburn; the weather still thick and blowing at 
S. W. He nevertheless effected a landing upon the north side of the 
Cape, and observed its latitude to be 68“ 52' 3" N., and the variation 
to be 32° 23' E. From thence he kept close along the shore, for the pur- 
pose of falling in with the land expedition, and arrived off Icy Cape on 
the 19th, when he landed and examined every place, in the hope of 
discovering some traces of Captain F ranklin. He found about twenty 
Datives on the point living in tents, who received him very civilly, and 
assisted him to fill his water casks from a small well they had dug iii 
