192 Captain Parry and Mr Fisher’s Journals of a 
the north and west of us. It was completely covered with snow, 
and so level, that had we not been convinced that it was considera- 
bly higher than Winter Harbour, we should be apt to suppose that 
it was the sea ; but as this objection could not be started against its 
being a large lake, some were of opinion that it was so ; on ap- 
proaching the border of it, however, we were soon satisfied that it 
was only a level plain. Our route, from the time of our leaving the 
ships, until we came in sight of this plain, was over ground, gene- 
rally speaking, pretty even, but gradually ascending. Its surface, 
for most part of the way, was at least more than two-thirds covered 
with snow. Soon after we got to the confines of the plain above 
mentioned, we saw a rein-deer and a fawn coming across it from 
the southward. The fawn appeared to be very young, and rather 
of a darker colour than the doe. The latter did not differ in this 
respect from those that we killed in the beginning of last winter.*' 
— Fisher s Journal, p. 199* 
The party arrived at the sea at Point Nias , in Latitude 75° 
34' on the 7th of June. From this they passed over to Bush- 
nans Cove on LiddoiCs Gulf which they reached on the 11th. 
On the 12th they went to Hooper's Island , and returned in 
safety to Winter Harbour on the 15th, after a journey of 180 
miles. The most remarkable event in this tour was the dis- 
covery of the remains of six Esquimaux huts, about 300 yards 
from the beach of Liddon’s Gulf. These huts, situated in 
Latitude 75° 2' 37", and west Longitude 111 0 37' 17", were 
exactly the same as those formerly described. 
The state of the ice on the 1st of August permitted the ex- 
pedition to leave Winter Harbour, and every thing seemed 
to predict a successful voyage to the west. These expecta- 
tions, however, were soon disappointed. The situation of the 
ships among the masses of driving ice was often precarious, and 
when they reached Cape Dundas , at the west end of Melville 
Island, on the 16th, the ice from the north compelled them to 
abandon all hopes of prosecuting their voyage to the west, af- 
ter obtaining a glimpse of three capes to the south, which they 
called Panics' 1 Land. 
Captain Parry, resolved, therefore, to advance, if possible, 
to the south, but after waiting in vain for an opening in the 
ice, he renounced this plan also, and on the 30th August he 
publicly notified his intention of returning to England. No 
events of any great interest marked the return of the expedi- 
tion, excepting a communication with the Esquimaux, who in- 
habit an inlet called the River Clyde, on the western shores of 
Baffin’s Bay. 
