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brother, which I have adopted as my guide, emphatically says, “ On 
Cape Alexander or Cape Hatherton I will deposit my boat and erect a 
‘ cairn.' ” We finally took refuge under a projecting point, some fifteen 
miles northwest of Cape Alexander, when we were startled by the hail 
of human voices. A party, including myself and the surgeon of the 
“ Arctic,” brother of Dr. Kane, started off forthwith, exultingly, with 
light hearts, confident that they were of the missing party ; but, after 
a long and anxious pull, we were met by two Esquimaux, who appeared 
very anxious to go off to the brig; but, on being refused, they signifi¬ 
cantly pointed up a deep, most beautiful, and finely-sheltered bay, 
inducing us to think that there was there a settlement; and, as we 
should lose no time, I assented. And well were we compensated for our 
trouble; for, after reaching the bottom of it, some three miles distant, 
we landed, and soon reached a settlement of some thirty of them, in 
seven tents, all covered with canvas. We now discovered many other 
articles, such as tin pans and pots, canvas, and iron spikes, preserved- 
meat cans, a knife and fork, bake-pan for a vessel’s galley, various 
spools of thread, several Guernsey frocks, and a cotton shirt, with the 
initials “H. B.” marked with red thread, which was supposed to have 
been undoubtedly the property of the boatswain of the “Advance,” 
whose wife was a Mahonesc, and the marking was evidently her handi¬ 
work. There were also broken oars and pieces of slats; and, finally, we 
found the tube of a telescope, which was recognised as having belonged 
to Dr. Kane. A close examination of the most intelligent of them, at 
three separate periods, by myself, Mr. Lovell, and Dr. Kane’s brother, 
aided by an Esquimaux vocabulary and representations in drawing of 
vessels, persons, and boats, put us in possession of what I believe to be 
the fact,—viz.: that Dr. Kane, (whose name the natives pronounced 
very distinctly, and described most unmistakingly his appearance,) 
having lost his vessel in the ice somewhere to the north of this, had 
been here, with Carl Petersen (his interpreter) and seventeen others, 
in two boats and a sled, and, after remaining ten days, they went south, 
to Upernavik. With all these evidences, I deemed it my duty to 
return south, touching again at Cape Alexander and Sutherland 
Islands; and, joining the barque, towed her to Hakluyt Island to water 
ship and examine for relics. In the mean time the south side of 
Northumberland Island was passed and repassed by the “Arctic,” she 
returning; and with the barque we stood over to the entrance of 
Lancaster Sound, and, thinking possibly he may have gone to Beechy 
Island, I left the barque, to examine the coast between Capes Hors- 
burg and Warrander, and, in the “Arctic,” attempted to reach the 
