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In order that the object, and a few other particulars^ of my voyage towards Repulse Bay, may be fully understood to my readers, I venture to solicit their attention to a short preface, which is intended to explain such circumstances as are essential to those who do me the honour of perusing my journal. ^n sH ti if' It may be remembered that in Captain Parry's second, or last, voyage, sufficient reasons are advanced, to favour the suppo- sition that a Western portion of the Polar Sea, lies at no great distance across Mel- ville Peninsula from Repulse Bay, and that a 8 iv PHEFACK. II 1.1 all the Esquimaux agree in placing it at three days* journey. ii • 1 Should this be the cose, of which I be- lieve no doubt is entertained, the water in question may be inferred to join that sea, which opens out from the western mouth of the Strait of the Fury and Hecla, and the form of the Peninsula may be toler- ably imagined from the charts drawn by the natives. ■n»? A bight may therefore exist as far to the southward as Akkoolee, which is the oppo- site shore from Repulse Bay ; and it cer- tainly would be an object of great interest to trace the connexion of its shores, with Point Turnagain, at which Captain Frank- lin's operations terminated. For this purpose Earl Bathurst did me the honour of employing me, and my PUEFACE. V Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, Furnished His Majesty *s Ship Griiter, for the puqK)sc of carrying me to RepulNo Bay. It was intended that I should winter there, and in the spring of 1825, I was to proceed with a small party across Melville Peninsula,, and endeavour to trace the shores of the Polar sea, as far as the above- mentioned point. For the better accom- plishment of this service, an adequate sup- ply of warm clothing, instruments, sledges, &c., were provided, and two boats, to be covered with water-proof canvas, were carried out in frame. ,* - The crew of His Majesty*s Ship Griper were as follows : » 1 1 » I ' Captain Lieutenants Carried forward 1 VI PREFACE. Brought forward Purser Assistant Surveyor Midshipman Assistant Surgeon Gunner Petty Officers Corporal of Marines Able Seamen Total 25 41 The Griper was a gun brig of one hun- dred and eighty tons, which had been con- siderably strengthened and raised upon, to accompany Captain Parry onhis first voyage, under the command of Lieutenant now Captain Liddon. Every comfort, in food and other necessaries, was most liberally provided for us, and Sylvester's stove was fitted in the hold, in the same manner as in Captain Parry's vessels. I have given a reduced chart of our route, in order to point out the errors of former ones; and I am happy in here PREFACE. VII having an opportunity of thanking Mr. E. N. Kendall, assistantHSurveyor, for the very able way in which he has assisted me with his observations, and in the plan of our route. Mr. Edward Finden, by whom the plates are engraved, has obligingly pre- sented me with some etched outlines, co- pied from sketches which I made of a few of our acquaintance on the last voyage, and I have here taken the liberty of introducing them, as they give some idea of the cast of the Esquimaux countenance. To Professor Barlow I beg to return my thanks for the interesting paper in the ap- pendix, on the observations which Mr. Kendall and myself were enabled to make on the magnetic errors of our compasses ; and I am no less indebted to Dr. Hooker of Glasgow, for his valuable communica- tion on the few plants which I procured in three short visits to the shore. VIII PREFACE. I purposed adding to the appendix, a copy of our meteorological journal, but it has been registered on so extensive a scale that it would be too much to insert in this small volume. For the farther information of my readers, I have inserted copies of my instructions from the Admiralty and Earl Bathurst. i ..-.v? " ■ * ". ''. ■ • j 1 • hi**; . • M.. ■. -. . .-• 'i ■ j<; f t>l»<34'Ji ' . brli ir.-k-v ,. - ■• ■ < ; * - V>30i''K| •> ^r^ }_ ''•■- •' . - " .. ::.•>; ' a^/- >■ ^ "i-: ■ . ,« jti'.l':' ' ,■ '■^ ,' ,'• T '.,'•' )'' ...J.- -V,..*;^,. ,'-«;>. a-,,(^ . •.»»,.. - #. -. • ,.,,,.. ,,.; »,f ii J'.l *r.».*ji u;i^t*rifA ..» a<*0'«.>I rn^. ^•:": .'. : • . u«.' ! ;f ■ 1 .1, 1 * T-;,* t iw O' r./r/t -*^-? ; -itlt ; ; 'i ' [•« -vti ^ >,)f; ;?iif u: .K OFFICIAL INSTRUCTIONS. 1 , *-»f,. By the Commissioners for Executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland^ &c. YOU are hereby required and directed to put to sea, on the 10th instant, with the sloop you command, in company with the Snap, surveying vessel, whose Com- mander has been placed by us under your orders; and to proceed with aU convenient expedition towards Hud- son's Straits, until you reach the ice, or arrive ofF Cape Chidley, when you are to receive into the Griper, from the Snap, the articles that vessel is to carry out for you ; and you are then to order the Lieutenant of the Snap to part company, and proceed to Newfoundland, according to his former orders, and no longer to consider himself under your command. And you will send by the Snap X OFKICIAL INSTRUCTIONS. an account of your proceedings to the day of her parting company from you. You are afterwards to take such route as you may deem best for reaching Repulse Bay, or Wager River ; and you are to place the Griper in security, in (other of the said places, ivhich you may find from circumstances best calculated for the purpose, with reference to the duties you have to perform under the instructions you will receive from Earl Bathurst, one of His Majesty''s principal Secretaries of State. Having so placed the Griper in security, you are to proceed yourself, with those destined to accompany you in the execution of the said instructions from the Secre- tary of State, leaving the Griper, during your absence, in charge of Lieutenant Francis Harding. Having executed the duty you are charged with by the Secretary of State, you are to lose no time in return- ing to England in the Griper ; reporting your arrival to our Secretary for our information. You are to leave instructions with Lieutenant Hard- ing for his guidance during your absence in America ; and you are to give him directions regarding hiii even- To m G OFFICIAL INSTRUCTIONS. Xi tually leaving the coast, and returning in the Griper to England, should circumstances induce you to take any other route homewards, or prevent your rejoining him within a certain period, as to the limit of which, you, at the time of your departure, will be the best judge. Given under our hands the 7th June, 1824. MELVILLE. G. COCKBURN. By Command of their Lordships, J. W. CROKER. To Captain Geo. F. Lyon, Com- manding His Majesty's Sloop Griper, at Deptford, ■ iU I.J Hi rfftj r!f I, • ta 4«u; >iq J. rn r\rif, }imi^'-ov>. n')T> .yruLniynt '.^toni >n» oiiv tt MJ /!> Ji'W '•fiir \yy>' t "»f(f '•t ■:•< •* If, / 1 Wi f .h' 1 re-.'ih XIU Downing-Street, SthJupe, 1824. Sir, Having submitted your name to His Majesty, as a fit person to be employed in the examination of the eastern part of the North Coast of North America, from the Western Shore of Melville Peninsula to the point where Captain Franklin''s late journey terminated ; and the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty having ap- pointed you to the command of His Majesty^s ship Griper, to enable you to execute this service, and with orders to proceed to the most convenient spot for com- mencing your operations ; and their Lordships having, moreover, informed me of the perfect readiness of the said ship to proceed, I am to desire that you will lose no time in putting to sea according to their orders, and pro- ceeding to the place or places therein pointed out ; on your arrival at which, if the season and state of the weather will admit, you are to endeavour, with a party. XJV OFFICIAL INSTRUCTIONS to cross the Melville Peninsula, and examine that part of the coast of the Polar Sea, where your researches in the following spring are to commence, in order that from the state of the ice, or other circumstances, you may take measures during the winter to be perfectly prepared to prosecute your journey, either by land or water, to the ultimate object of your destination. Pi Having made your previous observations as above- mentioned, and the necessary preparations which they may have suggested, you are, in the following spring of the year, to proceed with such a number of men as you may deem requi»te, and with such boats, provisions, and stores, as you may be able with convenience to carry, to cross the Peninsula a second time, and proceed westerly by land, or by water, as circumstances may admit, until you shall arrive at Point Turn-again, stop- ping as little as possible on your route thither, in order that you may have the more time in the favourable sea- son, for making observations on your return, when you will endeavour to ascertain, as correctly as your means will allow, the latitudes and longitudes of the various headlands, inlets, islands, ^c, which may occur in the line of your route. OFFICIAL INSTRUCTIONS. Mr %i part ches in at from >u may trepared •, to the » above- ich they stpring of 1 as you rovisions, [lience to proceed ices may fn, stop- m order ible sea- rhen you Ur means various ir in the It will be exceedingly desirable that, in the course of this journey, you should, not only yourself, but alsu those who accompany you, collect all such observations on the tides, currents, state of the ice, and other parti- culars, as may be useful to geography, and the naviga- tion of the coast along which you are about to proceed, as well as to science in general ; and you are also to col- lect as many specimens of natural history, in its various departments, as you shall have the means of carrying along with you ; and to make accurate drawings of such objects OS may not, from their magnitude, be capable of being brought away. You are to use every means in your power for pro-' tecting the people engaged with you in this enterprise, against any hostility of such natives as you may fall in with, and be careful not unnecessarily to expose them to the severity of the weather, using such means as are within your reach for preserving their health, during the continuance of the land journey. And having returned from the Expedition, and rejoined His Majesty''s ship Griper, you are then to consider yourself under the orders of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, and govern your further proceedings accordingly. I trans- mit for your further information. Extracts of the In- W' fill I i XVI OFFICIAL INSTHUCmONS. structionii which hove been given to Captain Parry for his guidance on the Expedition to which he has been ap- pointed. I am. Sir, Your most obedient humble Servant, BATHURST. Captain Lyon, R.N. ■ ■- /'' ■ , .'.-I. liM i ^\^^ -I - t >tt' )(, i(. jt' -.-1. n AN UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO REACH REPULSE BAY, Mt SIR THOMAS ROWE'S WELCOME. On Thursday, June 10th, 1824, at eight A.M., the Earl of Liverpool stcam-vesscl took us in tow, and leaving our hulk at Deptford, at three P.M., we anchored at Greenhithe. On the 11 til, Professor Barlow, for whom we had waited at Greenhithe, came on hoard and fitted his plate for correcting the com- passes from the effects of local attraction. On the 12th we weighed, and working down the river, anchored at night in Lee Roads. Weighing at daylight on the 13th, we reached the Little Nore at noon, and found lying there his majesty's surveying-vessel. Snap, Lieut. F. Bullock, who having taken on hoard a por_ tion of our stores, in consequence of the B 1S34. June. 2 PASSAGR ALONG 189». June. r ' h" III I !•■ (iripcr having been fonnd too deeply laden to cross the Atlantic, was to accompany us to the entrance of Hudson's Strait, whence she would afterwards proceed to Newfoundland. On the 16th Commissioner Cunningham ar- rived from Chatham, and the ship's company received their river pay, with three months* ad- vance ; when, having provided themselves with such a portion of warm clothing as my former experience in the Polar seas caused me to in- sist on their purchasing, and having sent their wives on shore, at four P.M. we weighed in company with the Snap, and made sail for the Swin. We now found that being in salt water, the ship drew sixteen feet one inch u))aft, and fifteen feet ten inches forward. At night-fall his majesty*s ship Brisk passed, and Captain Hope honoured us with three cheers, informing me at the same time that Captain Parry had passed through the Pent- land Frith. We anchored off the buoy of the Mouse, and were detained until daylight of the 18th, by a strong north-east wind. It then moderated from the northward, and we weighed. On the morning of the 19th the wind veered to the southward, and we had a toler- ably good run until thirty minutes after seven, TIIF. rOXST OP ENGLAND. f laden y us to ncc she ndlaiul. lam ar- 3tnpany iths* ad- :cs with former e to in- nt their veighed sail for ^ in salt tie inch urward. passed, I three rie that B Pent- 7 of the ight of id. It ind we e wind I toler- scven. 1 i I I 'i: I A.M., when wo aiichoird lii Yarmouth roads nntil ten A.M., for the ptirpose of exchanging onr pilot. We tUcit weiglied and ran throngh the Cockle (iat. From Ynmioiith I infornird their lordships of our proceedings np to this date. We had arrived off Scarborough by the afternoon of the 20th, when the wind fell, and it was not until the forenoon of the 22d, that wc came abreast of Whitby. At daylight of the 23d, being off Shields, we discharged the pilot, by whom I sent a letter to the Secretary of the Admiralty. Light airs and calms, with fogs and rain, detained us here until noon of the 26th ; and as a constant and heavy ground swell continued during the whole of this time, I was sorry to ob- serve that the Griper, from her great depth and sharpness forward, pitched very deeply. During our delay several looms and puffins which were very numerous, were killed, and in a little excursion for the purpose of try- ing my Esquimaux canoe, one of the officers was upset in it, and very narrowly escaped drowning, as he was much exhausted by his endeavours to extricate himself, before, we could come to his assistance in the attendant boat. With a moderate breeze from the east- U9 1884. Ill lie. \ ' il i iiii 1824. June. 4 NARROW ESCAPE ward, wc again made some progress, and on the afternoon of the 28th came in sight of the Caithness shore, near Noss Head. As the hreeze appeared likely to continue, I ordered Lieutenant Bullock to proceed with all despatch to Stromness, that the supplies which we re- quired might be prepared against our arrival ; and the better to accomplish this, Mr. Manico accompanied him, charged with a commission to purchase two strong Shetland ponies which we purposed taking out on trial. Off Noss Head we procured a pilot in the evening, and with the wind from the south-eastward crossed the mouth of Sinclair's Bay. We had not however ran above four miles from the Head, when a thick fog set in, and the wind bring on shore, with the tide running strong to the northward, we hauled off to avoid being set down on the Pentland Skerries. Having made an ofHng, until by the pilot's account of the set of the tide, we could wea- ther the Head, we again stood in-shore ; but a heavy swell, through which the ship made no way, and a light air, rendered her quite un- manageable ; and the tide having turned, we were carried right for the Head ; for at ten P.M. we obtained soundings in twenty-five fathoms, and saw the shadow of the cliff I ,5 OFF NOSS HEAD. 5 and on ,t of the As the ordered lespatch 1 we re- arrival ; Manico imission !S which )ff Noss ing, and I crossed tiad not le Head, wing on to the eing set pilot's dd wea- but a nade no uite un- led, we at ten nty-fivc he cliff i close above us, while at the same moment the breakers were seen and heard under our bows. Our next cast gave us four fathoms, but most opportunely a flaw of wind came edging round the rock, and we were fortunate in stay- ing the ship, and just clearing her of the reef. Guided by the sound of the breakers, and our hand leads, we succeeded in running into an anchorage in fifteen fathoms, apparently shel- tered by some part of the high land, As Sinclair's Bay is the only place affording an- chorage along a great extent of this most pre- cipitous coast, we were most thankful for our security. I cannot pass over the circuri- slances of this escape without deploring the extreme ignorance of the pilots for this part of the coast; ours, for instance, not having any idea of our situation when anchored, and having been most positive that the set of the tide, with which he declared himself perfectly acquainted, could not possibly sweep us near the head, on the course we had been steering. On the forenoon of the 29th the fog cleared, and we found ourselves about three cables' length from the land, and near the ruins of two fine old castles of the Sinclairs, 1834. June. I8e4. June. m '•)■! !> I 1. : 6 ANCHORED AT which were built on the steep edge of the diiF. At one P.M., a change of wind having taken place, we weighed, and ran with the ebb for the Pentland Firth ; but being unable in a stiif breeze, and with studding-sails set, to get above four knots out of the ship, which was twice whirled round in an eddy, from which we could not escape, we lost the tide, and in consequence did not arrive at Strom- ness until one A.M. of the 30th. We found that the Snap, having been carried out from the Firth to sea in the fog, had only arrived on the preceding evening. ' As refreshments were not to be procured at Stromness, the Hudson's Bay ships, which sailed as late as the 29th of June, having pur- chased all that were on hand, I sent Lieute- nant Manico to Kirkwall, for the purpose of ordering a supply of beef, vegetables, ^c, ; and also to purchase the ponies. In the mean time a boat was hired for bringing water to the ship, which I found would detain us some time, a drought of three months' continuance having rendered it so scarce, that our only place of supply was from a very small rill, yielding about two tons a day. The towns-people, in consequence of this great scarcity, had for some time been under m STHOMNiJySS. B of the d having with the g unahle sails set, p, which [ly, from the tide, t Strom- Ve found out from y arrived procured IS, which t'ing pur- t Lieute- irpose of es, ^c. ; lired for I found of three 3d it so wras from tons a ce of this en imder the necessity of sending to the ponds in the fields for water, and gi'oups of girls bearing tubs, slung on two poles, were constantly seen passing along the pathways. On Mr. Ma- nico's return he wb& accompanied by the Ba- ron d*Ende, Chambellan de S. M. le Roi de Saxe ; who was making the tour of the Ork- neys, and to whom I paid every attention in ray power. Accompanied by two of the officers, I walked into the country to see some Druidical remains, situated at Stenhouse, about six or seven miles from the tovoi, and on the borders of an extensive lake, which communicates at high water with the sea. The first of these remarkable monuments consisted of three flat slabs of sandstone, standing upright, and from ten to fifteen feet in height. One entire slab lay flat on the ground, and I afterwards heard that it had been intentionally thrown down by some ardently inquisitive antiquary, to ascer- tain how deeply it had been embedded in the earth ; but he was afterwards unable to place it as it was before, to the great chagrin of some of the old Orkney women, who hold these ruins in great reverence. The fallen stone had been embedded two feet and a half, and the space in which the four had stood was 1884. June. 8 ANCHORED AT 1S84. July. ■If! : ! ' surrounded by the still visible remains of a mound, about thirty yards in diameter. It would appear that the slabs were procured from the neighbouring lake^ as its bottom was of sand stone, lying split in long flat frag- ments. About a mile and a half beyond this place is a gently rising little hill, on which are five or six large and perfectly conical tumuli ; and also a circular space of about one hundred and twenty yards diameter, surrounded by a ditch. Within this enclosure were a quantity of the same upright slabs of stone as the first we saw, and ranged round its inner limits. On one side of the circle many were wanting, but on the southern verge several yet stood, and in one part six were together. •.um i From some Stromness people I learnt that there were several other Druid ical remains on the island, but that one of the most perfect circles of upright slabs had been rooted up by a sacrilegious farmer, for the purpose of add- ing their small scite to his already extensive cultivated grounds. ; ; . ^ r. Returning homewards, we made several in- effectual attempts at various little huts to pro- cure something to eat, but all the inmates de- clared they had nothing better than meal and water to offer us. ■. < ) / j,i j, ,. i '■ ] . .- ; .'v u- .« = n^ ^!^! lins of a eter. It prociaied ttom was flat frag- fond this ,^hich are [ tumuli ; hundred ded by a quantity the first ;r limits, wanting, et stood, amt that mains on 3t perfect ;ed up by e of add- Bxtensive veral in- :s to pro- nates de- [neal and "ki t OTROMNESS. y 'At length, however, we made acquaintance with an old woman, who took us into her smoky cabin, and laid before us abundance of roasted eggs, roasted potatoes, bannocks, butter, and milk, while her hushand produced his "ain wee bottle," from which he poured us some excellent whiskey. The old gentle- man, who called himself a farmer, had several acres under cultivation, but the hut in which "Christv" and he lived, was most miserable and dirty, having no light but through the smoke-hole in the roof. "While the good farmer stood declaiming before us on his visit to London many years ago, we could not but admire his costume, consisting of sufficiently ill-assorted articles of various colours ; and he had completed the ar- my of his outward man by wearing a red wig, which had been cropped or rather notched, over a dark shock head of hair, which peeped like a fancy fringe from beneath the boun- daries of this supplemental covering. The ground of our fr>nd was well tilled, as indeed were all the other fields through which we passed, but the com was only yet in blade. •!• On the 2d of July we hoisted in two very powcrftil little ponies, which Mr. Manico had procured, as a great favour, at Kirkwall ; for 1S34. July. 10 PASSAGE ACROSS 1SS4. they were the only two on the island, and had July, been sent from a Shetland to an Orkney laird. " Hecla" was forty inches in height, and " Griper,** who weighed two hundred and forty-two pounds^ thirty-eight ; hut hoth ani- mals were extremely well formed, and only four years old. We also completed on this day the purchase of our live stock for sea, and the Snap carried out a fat cow and eight sheep, as fresh provisions for our crew. At three A.M. on the 3d, we weighed with the wind fresh from the north-east, and in company with the Snap ran out at Hoy Mouth, and discharged our pilots, by whom I addressed a letter to their lordships, in- forming them of our proceedings up to this date. Being now fairly at sea, I caused the Snap to take us in tow, which I had de* clined doing as we passed up the east coast of England, although our little companion had much difficulty in keeping under sufficiently low sail for us, and by noon we had passed the Stack Rock. ' i «< >i With the wind north easterly, we lay our course until noon of the 9th, during which time the Sneip was of the greatest assistance, the Griper frequently towing at the varc of five knots, in cases where she would not have w # THE ATLANTIC. 11 gone three. The wind now came round to the north-weet, and wc unwillingly cast off from the Snapf Lieutenant Bullock now informed me that our cow refused to cat, and much against my inclination, her death-warrant was signed, for I had wished if possible to have kept her until wc reached the ice, when the cold would probably have preserved her flesh until Christmas, a period at which I knew from good experience that a piece of roasted beef would be highly acceptable. Our ponies proved much better sailors than the poor cow, for having now become acci^stonied to the motion of the ship, they walked about the decks as familiarly as large dogs, and even improved daily in appearance. During the 10th, 11th, aiul r2th, we made but little progress, owing to a heavy rolling sea, through which the Griper made no way. The wind continued from the north-west, and ram, with hazy weather, was prevalent. On the evening pf the 12th, the wind came round from the south-eastward, and the swell went down. We were now frequently in the habit of witnessing a phenomenon which I do not re- member to have so often observed in my for- mer passage across this part of the Atlantic, 18i4. Juljr. ]2 PASSAGE ACROSS 1884. July, ivhich was, Jiat the clouds near the hori^bn were constantly rising in clearly defined and widely-extended arches, being within their bounds far more luminous, and of different colours from any other parts of the heavens ; and as we sometimes saw three or four of these remarkable bows at the same instant in different quarters, it is evident that locality has no influence in their formation. ^ The 13th was a fine dry day, and we exa- mined our bags of pemmican, when to my great mortification I found that the fat which formed a part of this provision, had melted, or decomposed the caoutchouc which was used as a water-proof composition in the fa- ■ brication of the bags ; and in a clammy state it had oozed through the canvass, and rendered it pervious to water. I now issued an entire suit of warm clothing (a gratuity from Go- ■ vemment) to each officer and man, ''\ Early on the 14th, the wind having again come fair, the Snap took us in tow, but it, freshened to a gale by evening, when we cast off. w ► ..i!i At daylight of the 15th, the wind veered round and blew a strong north-wester, with a short-breaking sea. It moderated by the evening, t , ») , ,, i ;i.i! THE ATLANTIC. 13 On the forenoon of the 16tb, the Snap came and took ns in tow, but at noon on the 17th strong breezes and a heavy swell obhged us again to cast off. We scudded while able, but our depth in the water caused us to ship so many heavy seas, that I most reluctantly brought-to under storm stay-sails. This was rendered exceedingly mortifying, by observ- ing that our companion was perfectly dry, and not affected by the sea. The wind mo- derated at night, but continued fresh with » heavy swell all the 18th, on the evening of which day a thick fog set in and continued until late on the 19th, when the Snap again took us in tow. During the blowing weather we saw many flocks of cape-hens, sitting un- concernedly on the water, with their heads to the wind, We had a tolerable run until ten P.M. on the 20th, when, in a dense fog, we cast off. Thick weather, with rain and fogs, had now become so prevalent, that I judged it no longer prudent to keep the Snap a-head of us, unless we had a clear sight of the horizon, as on the event of her coming suddenly on a pack of ice, she might have received considerable in- jury. ■ .M:.,- : On the 21st the wind veered to the -north- west, whence it blew hard for a few hours ; and 1S24. July. 14 PASSAGE ACROSS 1884. JuTy. i in the course of the day we had rain and fog, during which the wind moderated, but at night it freshened again. We lay-to under closc- reefcd main-topsail until midnight of the 22d, when the wind fell, and, as the 23d was light and variable, I took advantage of the smooth water to receive all our leaden shot, spars, and small stores, from the Snap. The calm weather continued until noon of the 24th, when the wind came round fresh from the southward, and the Snap again took us in tow ; but at three, having car/ied away her main-topmast, she cast off. * •• ' On the morning of the 25th, the wind gradually modeutted to a calm, with a long rolling sea. Heavy rain had fallen for about right hours during the early part of the day, but in the evening the sky gradually cleared up, with that transparent brightness so pecu- liar to the Polar regions. At sunset it pre- sented a most beautiful appearance. In the north-west was an arch, whose bases were from east to north-west, where its extremity joined a second bow, stretching to the south- south-east. That to the north-west was top- ped by clouds of the most vivid orange co- lour, shaded with deep purple, in long wav- ing, but curved, bands; and below these I THE ATLANTIC. 15 gleamed forth the clear blue sky, which, as it approached the horizon, blended into soft green, rose-colour, and lake. In the bluest part of these ])right heavens, small clouds re- sembling streamers of white floss silk, floated with the most airy lightness, while near the horizon were a quantity of long black streaks, in solid masses ; behind which the sun was setting. One round blood-coloured spot marked its position, and the base of the dark cloud immediately above it, was bordered with the most brilliant scarlet, while the reflection from the sun on the long-rolling sea, imparted to it a deep purple tinge. A singular change took place where the two arches joined ; as that to the eastward was of a pure rose-colour, packed, bjind above band, the divisions of which were distinguished by a dull pink streak* The night was mild and foggy. The wind continued moderate from the southward all * The faint description I have endeavoured to give of a scene, which deliglited and astonished me, may hear testimony in favour of the singularly beautiful painting of " A Sunset at Sea after a Storm," by P. Danby, ex- hibited last year, and which by many connoisseurs was considered as quite unnatural, but it bore a most close resemblance to many sunsets which I have seen in the Polar regions. July. I » 10 PASSAGE ACROSS 1884. the 26th, and the day was so obscure, tha^wc August, kept company v/ith the Snap by guns and bells. In the evening we passed a pieqe of drift fir, about six feet in lengthy and a|^- rently much decayed. - , 1 1 1 1 1 The early part of the 27th was moderate, but the wind increased to a hazy southerly gale by midnight. This continued until noon of the 28th, when it broke, and we again made sail. A number of looms, and a few stormy peterels were seen. , iirat. > oit With the assistance of the Snap, we made some progress during the 29tli, on which night the aurora was faintly visible. ; , ^A ij 4 Tho wind on the 30th varied from fine in the morning to a north-west gale at night, but it moderated on the forenoon of the 31st ; and at night increased from the bouth. The morning of the 1st of August was thick and foggy, with rain ; at ten A. M. we dis- covered through the haze our first piece of ice, a small berg of about seventy feet. We soon passed this and several others, but saw no floe or brash ice, although there was every reason to suppose that a pack was near, from the sudden smoothness and change of tem- perature in the water, now at 32°, while the air was only at 34°. Repeated observa- THE ATLANTIC. 17 tioils of this kind have now brought to a cer- >S84 . tAinty the assertion, that the approach to ice August. from an open sea, may be ascertained by the sadden changes of the thermometer ; and act- ing from past experience, I caused the most attentive look-out to be kept, on observing it to fall suddenly on this morning. Yet this change first took place in a very thick fog, and we ran about ten miles before the ice was seen. ^ Although the bergs now discovered were of no considerable size, yet they were the first seen by the officers, none of whom had been out before ; and, notwithstanding a cold rain fell heavily, every one exerted himself to sketch such masses as struck his fancy, as head-pieces for his letters to England. ' A strong ripple of current was observable in eddies on the smooth surface of the sea, and to ttU appearance it was setting due south. Having ran about thirty miles from noon, the weather cleared in the evening, and we discovered the 66aL8t of Labrador very distant, and extending from w.b.s.Js. to s.|w. This inhospitable land was extremely high and rugged, and its immense valleys were still partly filled with snow. The summits exhibited a remarkable tendency to form themselves into pinnacles, which soared far above the more rounded masses of rock c 18 OFF THE ENTRANCE. 1W4. lying near them. The night was light and Au8;u3^ calm, and I took advantage of this, to receive some more of our stores from the Snap^ by em* ploying the watch on deck. I could ii^deed h^ve removed every thing ; hut ^s the sea was per-r fectly clear of ice, and t)ie weather h&4 the appearance of continuing fine, I determined not to finish clearing her until we should ar-r rive off Cape Chidley, as I might have an op-; pprtunity of ascertaining its true ppsition be- fore she parted. The event, hqwever, proved that I had judged too hastily. <, ,^, , 7 0" <».. A light breeze on the morning of the ^d, enabled us to run along the land, and at noon we were surprised to find ourselves only in lat. 59° 24' 38 ", the longitude by the n^eap of six chronometers being 62° 40' 9". ' • ^ Hence it was evident that during the two preceding days and nights we had been driven considerably to the southward, and had been ei^posed to the united force of the strong currents from Hudsqn*s a^ well as Davis' Stra,its. This is a strong argument against any vessel which is intending for Hud- son's Strait, making the land frqm the south-? ward \ hut as my instructions left this to my optipn, and I wf : very anxiqus to establish the ''position of Cape Chidley, I resolved tq OP HUDSON'S STRAIT. 19 make for it in preference to Resolution Island. isH At all events my having done so h^s answered August. om good end, by proving that the old esta- blished custom of making the latter is by far the best*. In the evening we passed a straight prece of drift iir, about sixteen feet in length, an4 apparently quite sound. On this day the crow's nest was fitted at the mast he^d, and the spike plank crossed. A boom foresail was also bent, and every preparation made for navigating amongst ice. We ran N.w.b.N. all the night, in the course pf whiP^ ^ f^W pieces^ of ice were seen. The wind freshened from the southward on the morning of the 3d, and heavy rain set in for the day. We passed several bergs and a quantity of taiigle weed, an4 at thirty minutes after nine, A.M., came to a pack of loose dcr cayed ice. Shortening sail we entered it, the Snap, for her better protection, following close in our wake. Having passed this, we sopa Itj'li i ' !l ' . '^ • - • - Jl ^ .-,,1=1 J' f t '. * On my homeward passage I was enabled, from seve- ral very satisfactory observations, to discover a far greater and more important cause for my having made so much southing, which was the disproportionate increase of de- viation with the ship's head to the westward, to be found more fully stated in the Appendix. .- "> .*».«..., -j ■ . C 2 20 OPP THE ENTBANCE ISM. arrived at heavier pieces, through which ^& Amguit, there was no way of avoiding them, owing to the thickness of the weather, wc also m^de our way. In the evening we came to some large flat ice, and as the weather was very thick, : I looked out most anxiously for a safe floe, hy which to hang the ships, hut was unsuccesfiil. I had experienced considerable anxiety in consequence of the unavoidably dangerous situation of the Snap throughout the day, but having at length arrived in a " hole of water,'* we lay to, and I had the satisfaction of learn^ ing from Lieutenant Bullock, that she had re- ceived no other injury than the loss of a little copper from the bows. I now determined on receiving our stores, and a spare bower anchor, which we accomplished in a few hours ; but to give some idea of the weather in which this was performed, it will be sufficient to say, that during the whole of the time we were at work, the ships were so entirely hidden itom each other by a dense fog, that the boats were directed backwards and forwards, amongst loose ice, by the sound of bells, which we cob tlaued ringinff^ ' !)P'f t"^ ■ r'''*?--'rfy> "??•■> trTf^ \> f(» When our stores were all on board, we fbuiid «OUtf>narrow decksi completely crowded by them. The gangways, forecastle, and abaft the mizen- OF HUDSON'S STRAIT. 01 mast, were filled with casks, hawsers, whale- '^94 ^ Ihies, and stream-cables, while on our straight- August. ehed lower deck we were obliged to place casks and other stores, in every part but that allotted to the ship*s company*s mess tables ; and even my cabin had a quantity of things stowed away in it. The launch was filled high above her gunwales with various arti- cles, and our chains and waist were lumbered with spars, spare plank, sledges, wheels, ^c. Our draught of water aft was now sixteen feet one inch, and forward fifteen feet ten inches. , > i i This account of our crowded state may lead to a supposition that I carried out a larger portion of stores than was absolutely requisite ; hut I may in a few words explain my reasons for having endeavoured to carry all the sup- plies which the Snap brought across the At- lantic for us. '• ^!^-S -2' ' -• - -^ '■^' ■;=*. i:-^ifs I^J.'it; 't Our stay in the Polar regions must of ne- cessity have been above one year and a half, even supposing that my journey to Point Turnagain had been perfoimed with the greatest expedition ; but had I encountered dif- ficulties, and experienced those delays on my return to the Griper, which are uiii^voidable OFF tHE ENTRANCE. **M. • in this desolate country, I might not have Aaguat. reached her until she was again frozen in, and two years and a half would then have been her shortest stay ; in which case it wits indispensably requisite that provisions for that time should be carried out, and these it was that now so much incommoded us. On the Griper's former expedition with Captain Pairy, she was only able to carry one year's provisions, and was supplied from the Hccla at the expiration of that time; and on her recent voyage with Captain Clavering, up a wide and open sea^ she only carried an eighteen months* supply » as it was not intended she should winter in the country. ••• ^- -J -? The difference in the quantity of stores may therefore account, in some degree, for the «hip's being so hampered $ and I have ttes^ passed thus far on the patience of my readers in consequence of an idea which has been adopted by some persons, unacquainted widi iHival afikirs, that I had uselessly lunibei'i^ti my ship; when, in fact, had I succeeded in reaching Repulse Bay with less stores dian 1 now carried, certain starvation would have attended us all, if we were detained, as might have ha|>pened, a second wintei\ It may also OP iruD^ON's s¥hXiT. 23 be proper to mention, that the Fltty atid Hecla, iWM. which vrere enabled to stow thHe years' pro- Augrast. Visions, were each exactly double the 3iz6 of the Griper. >. The night was very dark, and we stood north-west, amongst heavy ice, but in smooth water ; rain fell constantly, and, the tempera- ture being 31°, froze as it fell. , > On the morning of the 4th Lieutenant Bul- lock came on board, and I received a seaman, (John Howard) from th6 Sniap, in place of William Chamberlain, who having been for some time afflicted with hernia huMoraliSj and being otherwise in delicate health, it wAs judged prudent to discharge for a passage to England. I also received a light gig, which I was now enabled, by being in comparatively smooth water, to hang to the waist davits. -.- - - Having closed my despatches to the Admi- ralty and Earl Bathurst^ and given Lieutenant Bullock instructions to proceed to his station, the two ships hoisted their colours^ and parted with thifee times three. '' ■ • ' ? ' I have much pleasure in here acknowledg- ing my obligations to Lieutenant Bullock, whose attention and activity had been so fre- quently of great assistance to us. I had the satisfaction of seeing the Snap take a " lead'* I 2^ PART FROM THE SNAP. |i I If 1M4. in the direction of a dark water sky; and, Augmt, -^pith a fresh breeze from the south-west, and small drifit snow^ we ran the Griper into Jb& « pack/' t ■j:(.. /jil ^M if' no' i1''»! fill: ■^h'ih'' AFTER PARTING FROM THE SNAP! Ui > • Although the weather continued thick, we obtained a short glimpse of the sun soon after noon, which gave our lat. 61" 13' 0", and long, by dead reckoning, 63° 53' 50". v, )i'>t-»it>dt The extreme of land bore due west about ten miles, and as I conceived this to have been Cape Chidley, its latitude by the charts must be about twenty-seven miles too much to the northward. The weather, however, was at this time so thick that the base of the land was alone seen, yet its termination in three dis- tinct bluffs and a rocky point was undoubt- edly ascertained. At one P.M. we again saw the extreme bluff bearing w.b.s.|s., at about fif^ teen miles distance. .»>*Ai^' : luKiq ^ixjxjvii jiij jin As the ice, which lay in loose packs, V^hH rather light than otherwise, I kept the ^ship HiWjb.Ni, in hopes of passing close to the eftst- Wiu'd of I Button's Islands. The wind con- tinued strong all night from the sbuth-^^est^ wHh )a shcxrti lieavy sea, in which the *!hip ENTER HUDSON'S STRAIT. 25 being so much top-hampered by the stores isw, i«ceived from the Snap, could caiTy but little August, sail, and made much lee way, . ..>• u.^ On the forenoon of the 5th, the weather broke, although the wind continued strong from the same quarter. We obtained sights, and before noon made the land indistinctly, which we soon knew to be Cape Resolution, of which Mr. Bushnan has given so accurate a drawing in Captain Parry's book. It would therefore appear, that although our reckoning gave us N.w.b.N., we had only made a north course, and had driven under the influence of a strong lee current, quite out of the strait. As the flood was making, we stood on for Cape Resolution until four P.M., when the tide having turned, we stood with it for the centre of the 3trait. Several bergs were in sight to the northward, but no other ice of any consequence. The air had now become very cioid, and the thermometer seldom rose above the freezing point; up to this period we had, in fact, experienced more severe and unpleasant weather, than during our passage out on the lastt voyage. The wind came round from the westward, and with thick rain had freshened considerably by sunset ; hut w-e sailed so very badly that there were little < hop^s of our ^ •'I * Passage tjp making any ^i'ogress against it^ At dusk we August, suddenly came on a narrow *^pack'* of very heavy bine ice, amongst which an uneasy cross sea was running. We passed through a slack part of this with considerable danger to the boatSj and a high "wash piece'* very nearly carried away our bowsprit. From being so unhandy, it was midnight before we could get to windward of this very dangerous pack. Early oh the morning of the 6th, the sky broke, and we again saw the land. By attend- ing to the tides, standing off on the ebb, and in at the flood, we arrived by evening off the opening between Resolution and the lower Savage Islands, which latterj with the East Bluff were distinctly seen and set, and so great was the refraction, that the land ab^ut Cape Chidley, With the Button Islands^ were also clearly observable." The sea was crowded With loose heavy iCo all this day, which was decidedly the first fine one we had enjoyed since leaving England. I never remember to have seen the sky so beautifully and biilliantly reflected in the water, as on this evening ; and lovely as the surrounding dazzling view may have been^ I could not but yield to a sensation of loneliness J^ HUDSON'S STRAIT. 27 which I had never experienced on the last ^f^ voyage ; and I felt most forcibly the want of August. an accompanying ship, if not to help us, at least to break the deathlike stillness of the scene. The agiiccable visits from ship to ship, which so pleasingly break in on the monotony of a Polar voyage, were now denied us, but I was amply compensated for the want of a more extensive society, by having the happi- ness of knowing that I had officers and men with whom I was confident of continuing on the most friendly terms. We had already in our passage across the Atlantic arranged our little plans of improvement and amusement, and I looked forward with pleasure to the ap- proach of winter. The night was mild, clear, aiid calm, yet although the ship had scarcely any way through the water. We found on the morn- ing of the 7th that she had not drawn to th« eastward ; a proof that the Impetuosity of the tides ceases^ or is considerably diminished, thus far up the strait. The whole of the 7th Was equally delightful, but the sea was still covered with heavy sailing ice. A quantity of sea weed was seen on the water, and during the last two days We had also observed many pieces of drift wood, and smull distbrted piiies PASSAGE UP 1 1M4. from BIX to twelve feet in length, having the Aufutt. roots still attached to them, and but little in- jured by the water. A great quantity of looms, dovekies, rotges, mallemuks, and kitti- wakes were seen, as was also one peregrine falcon. The ship having but little way, our boats made several trips to the floe ice for water, and we were enabled, for the first time since leaving Orkney, to allow the people sufficient to wash their clothes, as we were unable to stow more than six tons of water for our passage across the Atlantic. In the afternoon, the flood tide having made in our favour, we passed the East Bluff with a fresh north-east wind, and found the ice heavier and closer as we advanced, At seven we came to a pack of the largest ice we had yet seen having a number of bergs in it. Passing through the narrowest part, about three miles, we came to open water. I was led to imagine from the way in which this ice trended, that it must have entered the strait through the passage between Resolution and the East Bluff, and I am the more inclined to this opinion, from re- membering that while we lay for several days beset off this place, in the Fury and Hecla^ the tide changed irregulai^ly, and appeared to have an independent set, as if running from •I J a^^^'; *-^ iving the little ill" entity of ind kitti- peregrine latsmade and we leaving to wash ow more :ro8s the e having 1st Bloff d the ice even we yet seen through vecame rom the it must passage \ and I rom re- al days Hecla^ ared to g fronpi otlt mwfi.fi ,rfj^f(>l lis t .'I Vit" »H ♦ » > of) liJf V u » . ' r» » , 1// i,/i U" f ;u ' .■ \ IfU/t; n jfic! r rfcrio' iij i i t f ' <•** h ; . ir?i> »:^c«<'.jjq Ofh 4g in iMt.nl *'^'^' !n» Ot li^o'U-: rir:!. !■' ♦hi i • I, ft ■fji.l Al'»'i-/? j")!' ol b<»iii inqc liiiy^ ^iifilugoiri Iny^nnd') obh Sfb ■rj>\ji :i! ,ifi:'''|'»'.':'' > . / 1 1 : 1 : >'■> ■ I 1.. }*i ^.■ «? ■'■1 ^ ^ I ,1 ) m HUDSON*S STRAIT. 29 some other channel than the mere entrance of the strait. Late in ^he evening we had arrived ahreast of that remarkahle ridge of land, distinguished hy oiir earliest northern voyagers hy the name of Terra Nivea, from its being constantly covered with snow. Although the mountains in its vicinity are many of them of an equal height with it, not one has a morsel of snow on its highest pinnacle, while this unbroken ridge does not shew the smallest speck of rock. At four different periods, July, Septem- ber, August, and October, in which I have passed this land, its appearance has always been the same. We had an excellent run all night, although the weather was rainy and very thick, and by four A.M., on the 8th, were abreast of Saddle Back and the Middle Savage Islands ; which are numerous, and several have long shoals running from them. The fall of tide must here be very great, as some pieces of ice, drawing at least twenty feet, lay high and dry a considerable distance up the rocky beaches. - -^ - , I had set the islands and gone to bed at daylight, leaving the ship five miles from the land, and running about as many 1824. August. :[ STRIKE ON A ROCK. 1884. knots through the water; hut was suddenly Augqst. aroused by her receiving a slight blow, imme- diately followed by another heavy and conti- nued shock, which heeled her so much that I ii^agined she was tuqiing over. Running on deck^ I found she must have struck on a rock, or piece pf ice attached to the bottom, but she had forced her way over it ; and on imme< diately sounding, had no bottom with twenty-^ five fathoms. We are fortunately enabled to set the known land, and lay down the pp* s^tion of the danger with accuracy. Running aipongst loose ice all the morning, we ultimately came to very hecivy floe pieces, aqiongst which were numerous bergs. The thickness of the weather prevented our seeing a "le^d," but in the afternoon we hauled intq clear water, which from our reckoning, was in the North Bay, and a glimpse of the land in the evening confirmed this. * ^ * The deviation of our compasses was here very great and irregular, although less so with our head to the northward than otherwise* Even Gilbert's excellent azimuth compass re- quired constant tapping, although under the influence of Professor Ba"^Qw's plate, which had hitherto corrected it with the greatest ao-r curacy. ,q v,,t,ji ,i. H'jS i.( HK'^ IN THE ICE. a| HeaTy rain fell all night, and we tacked bo- ^^ tween the pack and the shore, in from eighty- August. three to forty-three fathoms, keeping in sigh^ of two small grounded bergs, which acted as beacons, past w)iich the tide in the ebb and flood was setting at the rate of a mile and a half. At four A,M., on the 0th, we obtained a momentary sight of the Noith Bluff, and set it N.w.b.w. The pack was close up to it, and appeared to be driving rapidly into the open water where we lay, and which was the only clear space in sight. I therefore determined on taking the ice with a light south-east wind, and we made a few miles westing by the evening, when the weather calming we hung on to a floe. As rain had fallen inces- santly during the two last days, and the people had been constantly wet, advantage was taken of this period of quiet to dry their clothes on the lower deck. '^ On the ice by which we hung, were found several pieces of gneiss and granite, some sea weed, and bivalve shells. But we were sur-. prised to find in addition to these, a number of oak-leaves, and one leaf of the wortle-berry. This latter discovery would lead me to imagine that the ice had driven from the lower part of I 32 IN THE ICE. 1824. Hnd8on*s Bay; for it is well kno^inithRt August, neither oaks nor other trees grow in Hudson's Strait, or come as high as Chesterfield Inlet f. In the afternoon we had soundings in one hundred fathoms. Rain and fog continued until the forenoon of the lOth^ when a breeze which sprung up from the north-west^ directly against us, cleared the sky sufficiently to shew the Upper Savage Island, on which we had landed last voyage, bearing N.b.w., with the North Bluff N.w.b.N., distant ten and fif|:^en miles. Having found a heavier piece of ice than that to which we were fast, we warped to ' it, ant! our people were enabled to wash their clothes in its numerous pools, and amuse themselves on it for the day. In driving with the north-west wind we experienced consider- able anxiety by being repeatedly swept pjist bergs, and frequently almost upon them. These dangerous bodies were extremely nu- , * Subsequent to writing this part of my journal, I have searched in the accounts of various voyages to Hudson's Bay, and have reason to believe that the only iee which escapes from it, is that lying in its northern or broadest part ; and that the winter's formation in the bottom of the bay is thawed where it lies. This would lead me to suppose that the floe in question must ha.ve come from some other situation, and affords a subject of interesting inquiry as to its original site. ' H •^ IN TIIE ICE. 33 ni^rcUff hete, and indeed with the excejJfion i^. df thfe entrance of the strait, we had seen Augfost. Wore ice than during our outward passage on the last voyage. No water was observed in any direction, and I remarked that the ice by which we were surrounded was of two kinds ; either blue and transparent, from being washed clear of snow, or brown, and covered with sand and dirt to a considerable depth. The dirty ice, however, was far the most abundant, and in the proportion of two to one of the clean. Whence the great quantity of ice we had seen could have driven, I cannot imagine, as the Hudson*s Bay ships never meet with any impediments in August, or at all events find nothing but " saiHng ice," while we had found the sea absolutely crowded, and in many places closely packed as far as the eye could reach*. ' * ''- * The having met with such an unusual quantity of ice, at this late season of the year, was afterwards most satisfactorily accounted for, by my learning from the master of a whale ship, with whom I spoke on my home- ward voyage, that strong north-easterly gales had been prevalent all July and August, and had very materially altered the usual trending of the ice in Davis' Strait, so that the tunnel-shaped entrance to Hudson's Strait must have afforded it an easy reception. 34 m THE ICE ! 'ii n ■ i i I 1 Hi 1884. We hung on until after noon on the 1 1th, AuguBt. being unwilling to quit our floe, which was the largest yet seen, and on which as the weather was tolerably fine, we were enabled to stretch lines for the purpose of drying clothes, ^c, which was now very requisite, as from the continual wet weather we had expe- rienced, the ship and every thing within her had become very damp. We also sent our ponies, ducks, geese, and fowls on the ice, which in the forenoon presented a most novel appearance ; the officers shooting looms as they flew past, and the men amusing them- selves with leap frog and other games, while the ship lay moored with her sails loose in readiness to quit our floating farm-yard by vhe earliest opportunity. A slack in the ice, and a fresh north-west wind, enabled us, at thirty minutes after two, to make sail and work along shore. I observed that the larger bergs were here but little affected by the tide, which, from its merely operating on the floe-ice, must be more superficial than at the entrance of the strait. In the evening the wind fell light, and the refraction became greater than I ever re- member to have seen it before, for it was not confined to a particular portion of the horizon^ >i W TIIE ICE. 35 but its inflnence was every where the same, 18»4, and the distant ice appeared to form one con- Augfust. tinned high wall, which entirely encircled us. A fresh north-west wind set in at night-fall, and we hung to the largest piece of floe-ice we could find. The Aurora was visible for several hours, chiefly in the zenith, where the figure it most delighted to assume, was that of a long waving serpent of the most dazzling brilliancy; and I was now fully convinced of my error in having formerly asserted, * that the prismatic colours are not visible in this phenomenon,' for the most vivid purple, light blue, pink, yel- low, and green, alternately bordered and min- gled with the wild fire above us. At daylight on the 12th we had driven con- siderably, owing to the smallness of our floe, but no other was found of a greater size. Standing alongside in the forenoon and la- menting to one of the officers the want of amusing incident so much required while lying helpless in the ice, we suddenly saw an Esqui- maux close at hand, and paddling very quietly towards us. He required but little encourage- ment to land, and having hauled his boat up on the ice, immediately began to barter thd little fortune he carried in his kayak. I waft happy to find that he understood me perfectly, D2 f ^ VISIT FROM '! •! i 1 ■ ■ ,,•'_.* 1894k and that he spoke in a great measure the samp Augugt. dialect as our friends at Igloolik ; a fact ure were before unable to ascertain from our total ignorance of the Esquimaux language when we first saw the natives of the Savage Islands* My new acquaintance was called Kee-poong- ai-li, and he anxiously asked my name, a cus- tom never omitted by Esquimaux on meeting a stranger ; until he remembered it perfectly. He was extremely urgent that we should carry the ship to the shore, and with very excusable anxiety at finding himself alone, expressed im- patience for the arrival of others of his tribe, many of whom, he said, were coming off. In half an hour our visiters amounted to about sixty persons, in eight Kayaks, or men*s, and three Oomiaks, or women's, boatii, which latter had stood out to us under one lug-sail composed of the transparent intestines of the walrus. As the females approached they shouted with all their might, and we were not so deficient in gallantry as to be silent on sucli an occasion, for the specimen collectors were happy to observe that our fair visiters wore immense mittens <»f delicate white hare-skin, trimmed in the palms with the jetty feathers of the breast of the, dovekie. The boats being all hauled on the ice — -Babel was let loose. On THE ESQUIMAUX. 37 our former voyage being myself a novice in 18W. the country, I was not aware, in the excitation August, of the moment, of the noise we all made, hut bemg now well acquainted with the vociferous people who were visiting us, I quietly witnessed the present interview, and am convinced that it is not possible to give any idea of the raving and screaming which prevailed for a couple of hours- Some of the natives, however, were not so violently overpowered by their joyous sensa- tions, as to forget that they came to improve their fortunes; and one most expert fellow succeeded pretty well in picking pockets, an occupation from which frequent detection did not discourage him. Amongst other things he robbed me of my handkerchief, and was particularly amused when I discovered his roguery, for which I thought a box on the e^r would have acted as a warning, but I af- terwards found that he had crept on board, and was carrying off a bag of seaman'^s clothes ; a grand prize, for the retention of which he made a most violent stand, until 1 succeeded in tumbling him over the side. Tte generality of the others behaved pretty ivejl^ and traded fairly, each woman prb- aucing her stores from a neat little skin bag, which was distinguished by our men, by the name of a "ridicule," than which I coii- I I'V ». m I i 38 VISIT FROM 18A4. ceive it to be a far more respectable appenda^. August. Our visiters did not possess many curiositieL, and were certainly not so rich as we had found them on our former vpytige, the chief articles in which they bartered being their weapons and clothes ; and; I blush while I re- late it, two of the fair sex actually disposed of their nether garments, a piece of indecorum I had never before witnessed. A few seal, deer, and hare skins, with those also of yomig dogs, mice, and birds, were the other articles of commerce; and a very few ivory toys, with sea-horse teeth of a small size, completed the assortment. In a '^ ridicule," with some of these articles, we found a piece of very pure plumbago, of the size of a walnut ; and with the toys was one of a description I had not before seen. It was a large heavy piece of ivory, in which many holes were drilled at regular intervals, but leading in different di- rections. A small peg is attached to this by a string, and the game consists in throwing up the ivory block, and receiving it on the pin, in much the same manner as our game of cup and ball. A new variety of comb was also purchased, and I procured a mirror, composed of a broad plate of black mica, so fitted into a leathern case, as to be seen on either side. Our trading ha^ coDtiQ^ed some time befpr^ THE ESQUIMAUX. we discoTcred four small puppies in the wo- 1884. . men's boats^ and they were, of course, imme- Aufu»t. 1 diately purchased, as an incipient team for fu- f 10*6 operations. v>s> « in u. Uitii>4 The acquisition of these little animals re- minded us of our own live stock on board, and the pigs and ponies were accordingly exhibited to a few natives, who were called on deck for the occasion ; but they drew back from the little horses with evident signs of fear, while ' the squeaking of the pigs, in their straggles to escape from- those who held them, added not a little to the surprise of the moment. A safe i retreat for a few yards, however, re-assured our visiters, when a loud laugh and shout an- I nounced their satisfaction at having seen two ' new species of Tooktoo, (reindeer.) ' ' i< ' As a lane of water was seen in shore at noon, ' we were under the necessity of bidding our vi- siters adieu ; yet such was their desire to re- main with us, that when we left the floe, our i people who attended the hawsers, escaped with < difficulty into the boat, from the friendly, and ' not very ceremonious, straggle which was made to detain them. >r /^ *; ,/ » , "» ' ■ ^» ' » ^^^^ My last purchase at parting was the inge- niously-constructed sail of a woman's boat, which was gladly bartered for a knife. This was nine feet five inches at the head, by only !n> 111 4a VMIT FROM ^n r : I i!ili six feet at the fbot, and haTing a dip of thii<- Aufutt. teen feet. I'lie gut of which it was composed was in fonr-inch breadths, neatly sewed with thread of the same material, and the whol'- ^ » '.U * A name by which the Esquimaux distinguish them- selves, signifying, "The man," par excellence, ,: . . THE ESQUIMAUX. 41 when I mentioned " Shadlerinioo"*,** he seemed isii4. perfectly acquainted with the name» and, point- Augunt. infe to the north-west, said, " they live there.** Before my informant left me, I exchanged an a»h paddle and some other useful articles for his own oar, which was neatly constructed of se- veral pieces of w^ood, and edged with ivory. During the rest of the day we worked up along the coast, which is of bold granite rock, and near it several large bergs were lying aground. Having reached to about eight miles from the North Bluff, we saw other Es- quimaux coming down to us from the north- west ; and six kayaks, with an ooniiak con- taining eighteen grown persons and many chil- dren, came along-side, and were taken in tow. In the tumult of our trading, I observed thpt the natives took no heed as to whether the ice struck their boats or not, and I accord- ingly held one of ours in readiness to be low- ered in case of accidents. This was scarcely done when all the native boats were actually towed over one poor fellow in consequence of his obstinacy in holding on, although he saw, and had been warned of, his danger. I in- stantly went after him, and all his country- i I * A contemptuous term applied by Esquimaux to any others who are not of their own tribe. ' vivu "y^ 42 PASSAGE UP ¥> I 'i . i S2i . men, with more humanity than I liad seen dis- Augu&t. played on a similar occasion, shoved off also to his assistance, one picking up his spears, another his paddle, S'C, while he without ap- pearing at all flurried, liberated himself very ingeniously from his boat, by tui*ning on his back, and stretching his arms round her bot< tom. We towed him to the woman's boat, and there left him, in no very good humour, and shivering with cold, to bale out his kayak. This second division of visiters did not belong to the same party as those who first came off, but were established about fifteen miles from them, in a deep bight to which they pointed. We procured from them nearly the same ar- ticles as were brought by the otliers, and I pur- chased a little parcel of the skins of red foxes' legs, which animals are not perhaps known to frequent the shores of Hudson's Strait. The night was very foggy, and we stood off and on between the pack and the land. "^? It was evident, from a momentary sight of the land at daylight of the 13th, that we had made some westing, but our progress was pain- fully slow. In working during the day we passed to windward of many closely-packed streams of ice, generally composed of very heavy masses ; but as the water lay in lanes, were not without hopes of soon arriving in a I THE STRAIT. 43 dear sea. A thick fog distressed ns all day, 1894. but in the evening the sky broke, and the wea- Aug^ust. ther cahncd. The temperature since morning had been as low as 30° in the shade, the sea being 32°, and the fog froze thickly in the rigging. Although the fogs in the Polar re- gions are so frequently mentioned in the course of the recent narratives which have been pub- lished, I believe they are generally understood as resembling our English fogs, which is not, in fact, the case. In the northern seas these vapours rar-ely rise to above a hundred feet from the sea, and a sky of most provok- ing brilliancy is frequently seen over head. The view from the deck is bounded to about a hundred yards, and such is the rapid forma- tion of the icicles on the rigging, that it is ac- tually possible, when the temperature is low, to see them grow beneath the eye. Yet chill- ing as this may appear, the sudden clearing of the fog no sooner permits the sun to break forth in its full vigour, than the ship and rig- ging glisten in the most brilliant manner, as if they were of glass, and a rapid thaw quickly restores every thing to its original colour. > At night-fall a light breeze sprung up from the southward, and for the first time in many days the ship lay her course unimpeded by ice. By teUj however^ we again Qiime to a close 44 PASSAGE UP i 1884. pack, and the wind veered to nortU-west, fresh, August, with heavy rain and a dense fog. We worked in a hole of water for the remainder of the night. The wind continued steady all the 14,th, and the land was again seen. Hanging at night by a thin floe, we continued at it all the 15tl^ which was a calm, clear day, and young ice formed in the holes of water, under the broad glare of the sun. The stillness of this day was highly favourable for obtaining obser- vations for the dip of the needle, but the floe to which we were fast was not of suflicient: extent to admit of our getting so far from the ship as to be free from her attraction. I was now the more desirous of obtaining these ob- servations, on account of the fast increasing sluggishness of the compasses ; for that of Gilbert's, which had hitherto been folly cor- rected for the local attraction of the ship by Professor Barlow's plate, now began to she\f nearly as much deviation, when our head w^i^ to the eastward, as any of the other compas^es^. On this day, by a bearing of the meridian su», it amounted to 28° w. , . fi .r ,. The night was fine, and a light north-eas|i breeze enabled us to cast off on the morning of the 16th, and "bore" a few miles to the westward through ice which was lying in long narrow streams. Ihe morning of the 17th i; I ,.:^. THE STRAIT. 45 being fine, Charles* Island was seen to the 1824. westward, so that, although we had steered by August. cbmpass for its northern extreme, an increase in the deviation had led us to the south-east of it. " Standing in for the land until afternoon, the wind fell, and the weather thickened — we then tacked off again. On the sky clearing at thirty minutes past four, we saw several wal- russes lying on a narrow stream of ice, and I allowed the officers to take two boats and at- tack them. They soon killed two females, which we hoisted in, for they were considered as equal to a supply of fresh beef by the old hands. In consequence of meeting with these animals, I was led to imagine that the water would be shoal, although we were so far distant from the land, and the first cast of the lead gave forty-five fathoms. A slight rippling about a mile north of this gave indication of still shoaler water, and our casts in standing to it were forty-five, foity-one, thirty-five, and thir- ty-three, when it again deepened in exactly the same proportion; and standing s.b.w., we came gradually into seventy fathoms, after which we had no bottom with one hundred and twenty. Making the land indistinctly at sunset, we stood off and on all night, and passed a few narrow streams of ice. .il'l ^iili-'dl" v/tttchii 46 PASSAGE UP t^', i8«4. The wind was w.n.w. all the 18th, and Aufust. having passed two heavy streams of ice, the day was occupied in working to windward. It had been evident for two days past, that every stream of ice we had seen, whatever its magnitude ot extent, trended due north-west and south-east; a strong indication of a perpe- tual current in that direction ; and, as a farther confirmation of this remark, the shoal of yes- terday, as well as the ice which floated above it, lay in precisely the same bearing ; and, as the bank was of soft sand, it may be in*- ferred that it had be^n deposited by the tides. The fact of our not having again seen any walrusses, and entered into the usual deep soundings, shews that the shoal cannot be e3f- tensive ; and it is to be regretted, that the Griper's very dull sailing did not admit of my devoting a few hours to its *iill examination ; but having obtained satisfactory sights, we were enabled to lay down its position very ac- curately. At thirty minutes after nine P.M., we stood off the land, to which we had ap- proached within two miles, and while in stays had no bottom with one hundred and thirty fathoms. Although the wind continued foul all this night and throughout the 19th, the smooth water enabled us to work slowly along THE STRAIT. 47 shore. We approached to within ahout ten isM. miles of Cape Wolstenholni hefore evening, August. the bearing of which, with that of Diggs's Islands, was taken. The land hereabouts has a very remarkable appearance, being broken into high perpendi- cular bluffs, of from six to eight hundred feet, between which the rocks were split into deep ravines, descending abiiiptly to the water's edge ; and, at a few miles distance, giving the idea of their being the entrances to narrow fiords. The ' rocks are apparently of gneiss, the strata of which dips, with a considerable curve, to the northward. In the course of the day «ve passed many streams of ice, all trend- ing lorth-west and south-east, and large flocks of looms, with a few eider ducks, were seen. We were off Cape Wolstenholm by the morning of the 20th, and in the afternoon abreast of Diggs's Islands, where we found the sea very full of ice. It now fell calm, and continued so with rain and fog all night. The morning of the 21st was fine, witli suf- ficient of a variable wind to carry us through a quantity of ice, lying in a close stream of three miles width. Salisbury and Notting- ham Islands, with some apparently detached 48 hemahkable fog. 1884. August. pieces of land off them, were seen indistinctly. In the evening a singular species of fog passed over us from the westward, its height not ex- ceeding thirty feet ; ahove which was the clear blue sky. From the main-top the va- pour appeared like a dull soft wave rolling past us, while from the deck, when clear of the ship, it resembled a high dusky wall. During the time it surrounded us the sun was very strongly reflected on the part opposite to it, and the appearance was as if a second sun was glimmering through the haze. The night was calm and cloudy, and the sea full of loose hummocky ice, but we no longer saw any bergs, which sc:?med not to have arrived higher than Charles' Island ; yet even this was very much faither up the strait than we had found them on the last voyage, even at an earlier season of the year. ^ ^ , We made but small progress to the north- west during the 22d, yet lost sight of Diggs's Islands, and on the morning saw a part of the mountains of Southamptonlsland, very distant m the west. ' In the first watch some interesting obser- vations were obtained, to ascertain the amount of the deviation of our compasses ; but as I con- LAND ON SOUTHAMPTON ISLANI* 49 va- .4 ceive that these observations, with many 1884. others equally interesting, will be better seen August. by being arranged in a separate table, I have placed them in the Appendix. ■ • A thick fog with a high wind continued all the night, which was very dark, and although the wind remained unchanged, it was not until noon of the 23d that the weather cleared. During this time we had made a few mitesi south-westing, and passed some heavier ice than we had yet seen, many of these floes beingtwoor three miles in circumference. We had souml- ings in the night in fifty fathoms, and at day- light of the 24th, thirty fathoms, at which time we found ourselves off a heavy pack of ice, which lay against a yellow shoal beach at about four miles distant. Some sea-horses being on the ice our boats killed a coujjle of them, and having stood along the coast with a light air, I landed at ten A.M., with Mr. Kendall, for the purpose of obtaining observations. As we ap- proached the shore we had ten fathoms at one mde and a-half, at half a mile four fathoms, anc! at a quarter of a mile two fathoms, rocky bottom, on which heavy masses of ice lay grounded. We observed on landing that the tide had fallen about four inches, and that the ice with the ebbf was coming from the north- y I E fiO VISIT TO THE SHORE OP 1884. ward. The beach was of shingle lime-stone, August, of which indeed a low line of coa^t, extending for about twenty miles to the northward, ap- peared to be composed. At about this dis- tance north-east, the mountains rose high and bold, and were doubtless the end of the range on which ** Cape Comfort" of Baffin is placed. The beach on which we stood, trended abmptly round to the west as far as we could see '**'. Between the intervals of obtaining our sights, we walked inland, and saw five deer, although, from the scarcity of vegetation, I could not have supposed there was sufficient for their subsistence. Near the numerous •H. 63 SG 21 N. w. ■ .1 I -' w. * Latitude by two merid. altitudes, Longitude by two sets of sights and the mean of six chronometers Dip of the magnetic needle Variation with Gilbert's azimuth com- pass 37 30 00 Time of high water at full and change Rise at spring tides, about Rise at ordinary tides Iwas surprised at finding the variation to be so small, as our last observation at the ship had given 52°; but on looking over Captain Franklin's appendix, I find he re- marks that the variation decreased very rapidly as he crossed Hudson's Bay, and at York Fort, in long. 92°, it became easterly. 80 51 25 86 33 00 lOh. 15m. 20 ft. 12 ft. SOUTHAMPTON ISLAND. 51 N. W. W. small, )UtOIl le re- as he 92°, it shallow lakes, were a variety of the usual ^^ beach birds, and a few pin-tailed ducks; and Auju»t. on the banks of ii large piece of water were the remains of three Esquimaux summer cir- cles, moss-grown, and apparently long for- saken. There were no other traces of natives having been recently near the spot until we came to the beach, where we unexpectedly saw the footing of a man and dog, which we traced as having followed the track of the ship as she sailed past the beach. The marks were quite fretth, and near them was the recent path of a large bear. In the few plants we pro- cured, the flowers had given place to the seed, which in some specimens was already quite matured. We also picked up two small splinters of drift wood, but so much decayed that they were it first supposed to be asbestos. At twenty minutes past two P.M. the ice in the offing began to set at the rate of a knot from the southward, but the tide, which had already fallen ten feet, was still ebbing. That portion of the shore which was now un- covered, was of lime-stone rock, running out to seaward in flat steps or ledges, and amongst the stones the boat*s crew caught two small species of rock fish. At three we left the beach, and passing . E 2 i 52 RUNNING DOWN THE 1884. amongst tlie ice, on which many walmscs were August lying, arrived on hoard at thirty minutes past four, when I learnt that two others of these animals had been killed. We now stood away south-west for a distant point of high land, which I imagined to be the Cape Pembroke of Sir Thomas Button. The situation of the point on which wc landed, differs so much from the position assigned by Baffin to Sea- Horse Point, that I imagine he did not see this low part of the coast, but the mountainous land to the north-east, which answers more nearly to his latitude. The point on which we had landed was called after Mr. Leyson (assistant surgeon) ; and a broad strait of about thirty miles, which mns between this and Cape Pem- broke, received the name of Evans' Inlet, — after Mr. Evans, purser of the Griper, 'ri/fuf'. ' " The soundings in which the ship had worked at five miles from the shore, varied from fifty to thirty-five fathoms, muddy bottom. I am thus particular in stating our soundiiigs on this day, as they are the commencement of con- stant labour at the leads, and also a proof of the careless manner in which the old charts of the coast of Southampton Island have hi- therto b6en marked ; for it is in them laid down as a bold precipitous shore, having from COAST OP SOUTHAMPTON. U ninety to a hundred and thirty fathoms oft' it^ 1S84. while on ahnost every part which we coasted, Auguit. our hand-leads were going at from four to ten miles from the beach, which in no one place could be approached within a mile by a ship. At daylight on the 25th we made out tolerably high land at Cape Pembroke^ with a long low point running ofl^ it south-west. Working in that direction all the day and night, at dawn of the 26th we passed abreast of the high land, and saw the beach trending south-west, until lost in the distance. Here, it may be proper to observe, the high land entirely ceased, and we entered on a very flat beach, of so uniform un appearance, that we were frequently at a loss for a large stone, or some break in the coast- line, for the connexion of our angles as we surveyed it. Our compasses had now become quite useless with our head southerly, and that in particular to which the plate was fitted, so powerless, that its north point stood wherever it was placed by the finger; but with our head northerly they all traversed again. This, how- ever, benefitted us but a little, for, as our route lay to the south-west, we were without other guidance than celestial bearings, which could not always be obtained. We continued to near the Cape Pembroke shore until one P,M., !l ...*ae-' *^ A SMALL TRIBE OP I iMii when, favoured by a strong northerly wind and Aufuit. the tide, we ran south-west by west by the sun, along the low land, in from thirty-seven to twenty*fivc fathoms, when at dark I hauled into fifteen fathoms at four miles from the shore, and anchored for the night. To the south' west of us, the land terminated in a low beach awash with the water, and I did not think it prudent to attempt passing it in the dark, as I must have continued nnder sail without any object by which I could steer. Several white whales were seen in the course of this day. Weighing at four A.M. on the 27th, with a very light breeze from the northward, we ran about four miles south-west by south in low but regular soundings ; when, the wind failing, we anchored with the stream in twenty fa- thoms, at four miles from the beach. Sailing along the shore, we had heard loud shouting, and when the day broke, saw seven natives fol- lowing us by the water's edge. They were now abreast the ship, and as it was desirable to obtain observations, I landed with some of the officers and two boats, but the sky was too cloudy to favour our getting sights for the chronometers. While yet a mile from the beach, a native '1 'flf ( ifi> hii» /t'i #VHtn»f l|lf*. tili /•' f-: f i it ff. ' » :hAi if i^ (ft iCf»> ''•'»i I, i- »*i» Mf •ll* J •(!'"* • • Sft ^/ ' I ! ' l3 i © -4 I m 5>. 5 ■t: ^ STRANGERS DISCOVERED. 55 wafi*seen coming off to us, and as he approached, iS94. we observed, that instead of a canoe he was August. seated on three inflated seal-skins, connected most ingeniously by blown intestines, so that his vessel was extremely buoyant. He was astride upon one skin, while another of a larger size was secured on either side of it, so that he was placed in a kind of hollow. His legs, well furnished with seal-skin boots, were immersed nearly to the knee in water, and he rowed with a very slender soot-stained paddle of whale*s bone, which was secured to his float by a thong. ^ On approaching, he exhibited some little signs of fear ; his teeth chattered, and himself and seal-skins trembled in unison. It was evident from the manner of this poor fellow, that he had come off as a kind of herald from his tribe, and as I felt for his alarm, I threw him a string of beads, which he received in great trepidation, and placed, with trembling fingers, across a large bunch of hair which pro- truded from his forehead. A few friendly signs which accompanied my gif);, gave him a little more confidence, and he soon came alongside, after having, as a peace-offering, thrown me a couple of dried salmon and a very rude arrow, headed with a roughly-chipped flint: at my 56 THE NATIVES OP 1^4. request he jumped into om* boat^ and taking August, his skins in tow, we'rowed for the beach ; but our new acquaintance was not a' very quiet passenger, for he stood up repeatedly to wave and shout to those on shore, assuring them' of his safety, and that I had given him three needles. He was about twenty years of age, very small and brown, with a most agreeable cast of countenance. He called himself Nee- a-kood>loo, and as we made for the beach I found, that although he understood me a little, and used a few words with which I was ac- quainted, yet he spoke a language differing very materially from that of any other Esqui- maux whom we had seen. ; He chattered and chuckled rapidly and delightedly to himself, and always with downcast eyes. At a long shoal point we jumped on shore to his six countrymen, who appeared to have neither word nor gesture of salutation, and each, as I approached him, presented me with two half* dried salmon, evidently intended as a peace-^ oiFering ; for the donors drew back on my ac- cepting the fish, as if they expected no equiva-' leiit. Obsei-ving a dirty-looking bone in each man's hand, I asked what they were, and the poor creatures told me they were their " Fau- nas" or knives ; which on examination I found SOUTHAMPTON ISLAND 57 to be formed of a rough piece of chipped flint law. something like a poplar-leaf in form, and clum- August. sily lashed to small bone handles of about six inches in length. Such were the only cutting instruments of these wretched people. I pur- chased each man's panna for either the officers or myself, giving a strong butcher's knife in exchange, which the poor fellows received with silent and trembling delight, first eyeing me, then the knife, and at last utteringa long sighing *'kooyenna" (thank you) in a tone expressive of the deepest gratitude ; and this display of their feelings was not confined to the impulse of the moment, for it was constantly repeated, with < .very appearance of sincerity, during the whole of our stay on shore. No one licked, as is the general Esquimaux custom, any of the articles we gave them. W hile landing our instruments, and waiting in hopcjv of obtaining sights, the natives stood quietly gazing on us as if quite overpowered by their surprise, and there was not a word uttered, unless to invite us to their tents, which I afterwards found were about two miles dis- tant. As we walked to them along high shingly beaches intersecting small swampy lakes, several birds were shot by the officers ; but although the natives saw them fall, they 58 THE NATIVES OP IM4. expressed neither surprise, fear, nor curiosity Augfust. about the gun?. We passed several small store-houses, of about six feet in height by ten in diameter, built of rough slabs of lime- stone, rudely but regularly piled up, and Neeakoodloo opened one to shew me that it contained a quantity of split salmon, suspended by the tails in such a manner that no small animals could reach them. As we walked forward, my com- panion, who went at a rapid impatient pace, talked incesaantly to himself with his eyes fixed on the ground, occasionally elevating his voice, which had a very agreeable tone, to a most merry chant, having a jerk not imlike a hiccup at the end of each sentence. He would then for a moment appear to recover from his fit of musing, and turn to urge me for- ward, but soon relapsed again into his merry soliloquy. If I spoke, he answered with a lively " Hai !" but never waited or endea- voured to comprehend me, and again began chuckling to himself He seemed quite igno- rant of the word Kayak, although he knew what an Oomiak was, and pointed to the ship ; and I observed that he called dogs " Tchien- miuk," which differs very much from the Igloo- lik name *^ Kain-meg.*' Several other words were equally different, and his language, which SOUTHAMPTON ISLAND. 59 was pronounced shortly, appeared in conse- quence to abound in monosyllables. We found two tents, very small, and full of holes, by which both wind and rain might enter in all directions. They were of badly- dressed seal-skius. Five women and their six children were the inmates, and when we en- tered, the former shewed no signs either of fear or surprise, but received us as if they had been accustomed to the sight of Europeans all their lives. The children, on the contrary, all hid their heads, and neither spoke to, nor even looked at us during the whole visit. One of the women, by her appearance, could have been scarcely fifteen yc^rs of age, yet carried her own child, a stout boy of at least a twelvemonth old, at her back. Her face was as perfect an oval as that of an European girl, with regular and even pretty features. Her mother was with her, and had the same cast of counte- nance, save that she squinted abominably — a defect I have witnessed but in one other instance amongst these people. The other women had the broad flat faces and high cheek bones usually met with. I had no sooner en- tered Neeakoodloo's tent, than remembering, I suppose, my present to him, he took up a large new deer-skin, rolled it neatly up, and 18S4. August. 60 ii .. .THE NATIVES OF 18^. threw it towards me, repeating at the same August, moment " Kooyenna." The tent floors^ with the exception of the small space allotted for sleeping on, were entirely strewed with salmon and their offal ; and, as I saw no lamp, and hut one miserahly-constiiicted cooking-pot, I sus^ pect that the fish are generally eaten raw. Ahout two dozen dogs were lying near the tents, hut, with their usual fear of strangers, all ran off on our approach. I saw no sledges. . y There were none of those little domestic toys in these tents which we had always found with our Winter friends, and it was not until our visit was nearly over that I discovered the women used very ingeniously-formed bone needles, which of course were purchased by an abundant supply of steel ones. They had also a couple of little iron needles of their own manufacture ; these were apparently made from two small nails, not much reduced in thickness, and having such diminutive eyes that they could never have been of any ser- vice. The bone needles were formed from the pinions of Ijirds, which are far harder, and at the same time more plastic, than any other bones, i ^ .;, , ' ' • ■' (f On the ground in one of the tents, I saw a Uttle bit of deal, about three :nches in length. SOUTHAMPTON IST.AND. 01 planed and painted black oh one side. This was 1824. amongst the valuables of the family, although August. from its size it could not have been made useful, but was probably treasured in consequence of its having drifted to their shore from one of the Hudson's Bay ships. This, with three bows, each consisting of many pieces, was all the wood in their possession, for their spears were made of the whale's rib bone, and in a rougher style than any we had hitherto seen. Yet this scarcity of wood did not prevent their gladly sdling the bows ; and I afterwards learnt that one with five arrows was purchased for a livery button. I distributed knives, boarding- pikes, and beads, to the whole of this little tribe, and observed that each individual, on re-, ceiving a present, immediately offered to the donor the choice of their property, the most valuable of which, in their own estimation, were small rolls of dried salmon-skins, and little pieces of flint for the purpose of making- knives and arrows. Poor Neakoodloo, on receiving two knives for himself and wife, appeared quite distressed at my refusing the dirty pieces of stone and fish-skins which he offered me ; and fancying that I rejected them as not being good enough, he took a sharp flint, and began cutting up a large seal- 62 THE NATIVES OP 188*. skin, tlie only one in his possession, for my August, acceptance ; on my reiiising this also, he again warmly repeated his thanks for the knives. The women were slightly tattooed on the face in small dots, probahly from their having no needles of sufficient fineness to draw a sooted thread under the skin in lines, as is the usual Esquimaux custom. The hands were not marked, and their hair was twisted into a short club, which hung over each temple, I purchased two little bone ornaments, which had been used as pendants to these locks, and on one of them were about a dozen small irregularly-shaped pieces of lead, strung alternately with square-cut pieces of the claw of some bird. The women wore no breeches, but had little thigh wrappers, and very high boots, which, with their very ragged jackets, resembled those of the natives of the Savage Islands. The costume of the men was also some- what of the same kind as of the above people, but all had much shorter breeches, and their knees were more exposed. As they wore gloves, the reversed skin of the dovekie, merely dried, without farther preparation^ and the long stiffened neck part pointed forward in such a manner as to be always in the way. SOUTHAMPTON ISLAND. 03 In Tlie only other peculiarity consisted in each 1884. man having an immense mass of hair as large Augmt, as the head of a child^ rolled into the fonn of a ball, and projecting from the rise of the forehead. One of these bundles, which I caused a man to open, consisted of six long strings of his own locks, originally plaited, but now so matted with dirt, deer*s fur, ^c, as to resemble a rough hair tether. These extraor- dinary tresses were bound tightly together at their base, and measured above four feet. I found that the place whence the salmon were procured, was a rapid little streamlet, running over a gravelly bed, at about a hnn> dred paces from the tents. Its breadth might be about forty yards, and a dam was erected across it, behind which the fishermen stood and speared the salmon as they advanced up to the little wall. At half a mile from the tents, was a large winter hut standing near the sea-beach, but I had not time to visit it. On our return to the boats, I desired the natives to open their salmon stores, and bring a quan- tity of fish after us, which they gladly ac- quiesced in, and we carried off a large and most welcome supply to the ship. Not one of the strangers begged, or became in any way troublesome, but even to the moment of our 04 LEAVE TftE NATIVES. 1884. departure, cotiducted themselves so as to shew August, lis how grateful they were for our presents to them. ■ ,; ,. . . , . • . . - From their total want of iron, and from their extreme poverty, I am led to imagine that these people had never before seen Europeans ; al- though it is not improbable they may have ob- served the Hudson's Bay ships pass at a distance in the offing, on some occasions, when they may have been driven by bjid weather a little out of their annual course. The good behaviour of these poor savages was therefore quite natural to them, and the fearless con- fidence which led Neeakoodloo to put him- self into our power, is the strongest proof of their ignorance of guile or treachery. I :W' We obtained the latitude 62° 29' 50" n„ and longitude^ by afternoon sights, 82° 48' 45" w., but were not able to ascertain the rise and fall of the tide, owing to the unfavourable na- ture of the beach, which ran out for nearly a mile into flat shingly shoals, between which were lakes at low water, thickly filled with tangle and other sea-weed, from whence pro- ceeded a most noisome smell. A few muscle- shells were picked up amongst this, but none of the fish in a live state. ' f ■) v Having reached the ship at one P.M., we * r *r> - ' OFF CAREY'S SWAN'S NEST. 65 i> \ ■\ni t II /I 1 Ow 1 1S84. weighed with the flood, which here came from the nortti eastward, and ran south-west ahont Auguit ten miles, when, at eight P.M., we anchored in twelve fathoms, at four miles from the shore. " ' < . The night was fine, and at four A.M. on the 28th, with the wind from the northward, and a heavy short sea, apparently caused by a weather tide, we weighed, and continued to run south-west along the low beach, until eleven A.M., when being off a low point, at eight miles from our last anchorage, we saw a shoal running about five miles to seaward, from N.N.E. to s.s.w. Keeping an offing, we rounded this, and then found the land, which was still low, to trend from behind the point, W.S.W., which I take to be " Carey's Swan's Nest" of Button. Several store-houses, and two winter -huts, were seen on the beach, but no natives appeared. The soundings, at about eight miles from the shore, were rather irregular, but never above twenty, or lower than ten fathoms. The sea was much agi- tated, a great quantity of tangle weed float- ing about. Haying stood in for the shore, a strong tide assisted us until evening, when haying ran west south-west about twenty miles since noon, we anchored, with the wind from P IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) ^cf 1.0 ^iv^m, itt Ui moo m ' ^ L£ 12.0 la I.I Photographic .Sciences Corporation ^S H^ \ <^ 23 WIST MAIN STMHT VVnSTIt,N.Y. M5M (716)t72-4S03 VISIT TO A *.??* *^* north-west, at two miles from the shore, in Aufust. thirteen fathoms. The night was calm, with incessant drizzling rain. From our having carried a sonth-westerly tide with us for ahove twelve hours, I have reason to suppose that the tides meet at Carey's Swan*s Nest, and that the Aood runs thence to the eastward. At four A.M., on the 29th, the wind be- ing light and contrary, with continued rain, I landed with two boats to procure water abreast of the ship, on a flat lime-stone beach, lying in long irregular ridges to seaward ; and the tide having ebbed a little, the small rip- pling sea marked the position of the shoals by breaking on them. Near our landing-place were the remains of a large Esquimaux esta- blishment, and had it not been for the state in which we found some stored provisions, I should have imagined that no person had been there for some years. These hoards were carefully deposited in small buildings, such as I have before described, and consisted of the bodies of skinned birds, suspended by the legs, pieces of walnis, carcasses of seals, bags of blubber, and one leathern sack full of king- ducks, uncased, and with all their feathers yet on, smelling most offensively. On a high pile of stones, near tiie beach, were placed a DESERTED VILLAGE. ^ leen ^ere bh as the the |hags dng- yet pile ;d a broken bow, a flint arrow, and knife, with t '^ coarsely-constnicted spear, and some frag- Aufuit. tnents of skin and walms flesh. These articles may probably have been the property of some man who lay buried near the pile, bnt I conld discover no grave. Not far from this, and near a very small hut, built of peat, was a large inverted cooking-pot, composed of thin slabs of lime-stone, very clumsily cemented together ; and beneath it was a flint knife, a piece of ivory, and a short splinter of decayed drift wood. Some sledge runners, of the whale*s jaw, lay buried beneath a few large stones ; and as they were quite black with soot, it is probable they had answered the pur- pose of roof-rafters to some winter-hut. Se- veral other long spars of bone were lying round in the same smoky state ; and as no wood is procured in this desolate region, they may be considered as the store timber of the poor Esquimaux. Eight or ten double piles of stones, for the purpose of supporting canoes, were erected along the beach ; and farther in- land stood six large bone, or winter, huts, in a very dirty delapidated state; and as mosses and grasses were growing on their seats and sleeping places, they must have been long for* saken. Of the immense quantity of bones F a 68 DESCRIPTION OF AN 1' i 1884. which lay scattered around, those of the deer Aujfcttt. were most numerous. At a short distance from the shore, on one of the shingle ridges which intersected the swamps, I found a flint knife lying near a small pile of stones, under which was another knife, an arrow, a dark flint for making cutting-instruments, and two little bits of decayed wood, one of which was modelled like a canoe. Close to this was u larger mound, which contained a dead person, sewed up in a skin, and apparently long bu- ried. The body was so coiled up, a custom with some of the tribes of Esquimaux, that it might be taken for a pigmy, being only two feet four in length. This may account for the otherwise extraordinary account given by Luke Fox, of his having found bodies in the islands in the " Welcome" which were only four feet long. Near the large grave was a third pile of stones, covering the body of a child, which was coiled up in the same manner. A snow buntin had found its way through the loose stones which composed this little tomb, and its now forsaken, neatly built nest, was found placed on the neck of the child. As the snow buntin has all the domestic virtues of our English red-breast, it has always been -h •1 . • 1 )■ 1 " t > 1 M .. • . « ESQUIMAUX CRAVE. <)9 considered by us as the robin of these dreary iSM. wilds, and its lively chirp and fearless confi- Aui^uit. dence have rendered it respected by the most hungry sportsmen. I could not on this occa- sion view its little nest, placed on the breast of infancy, without wishing that I possessed the power of poetically expressing the feelings it excited. Both graves lay north-east and south- west. Before going on board I placed board- ing-pikes, men*s and women's knives, and other articles, which might be useful to the poor Esquimaux, on the huts and various piles of stones. The beach, above high water-mark, is com- posed of large masses of shingle lime-stone, in which were several imperfect fossil remains, and a few pieces of madrepore were also picked up. The greatest attraction, however, was in the quantity of fine flints and pretty veined agates, which lay broken all along the beach. It would appear from the weapons found on this day, as well as others purchased before, that the natives only make use of the dark- coloured flints, which may be in consequence of their finding the veined stones more liable to split. The whole country is very flat, full of shal- low lakes and swamps, and near the huts, the 10 COASTING THE SOUTH I I 1M4. graiies were flourishing moat luxuriantly. It Aufiut. ig remarkable that no sorrel should have been found in our throe visits to this shore, and that the ground willows were so small, that their leaves did not rise above the mosses, but grew entwined amongst them. I picked up about a dozen dead shells of muscles. . > At thirty minutes after nine, when I left the beach, it was low water. At eleven the tide turned in the offing, and flowed from the eastward. We now observed in-shore of us a long overfall, having deep water within it, and running at a mile from tl;ie beach to a low point five or six miles w.s.w. of us. . Weighing at one P.M., we lay along the shore with the wind from the southward, un-» til arriving at the above point, to which I gave a wide birth, as a heavy surf was breaking over a long shoal which ran from it, and the wind was freshening from the north-west, whence it soon blew a gale, and brought us under close-reefed topsails. A strong weather tide rose so short and high a sea, that for three hours the ship was unmanageable, and pitched bowsprit nnder every moment. We now found that although with our head ojf this tnily dimgerous shore, we were nearing it OF SOUTHAMPTON ISLAND. 71 rapidly, and driving bodily down on the shoal. ist4. I therefore kept away a couple of points, a AugiMt. plan we now constantly followed, as it was the only method of keeping head-way on the ship in even a moderate sea ; and it was more to our advantage than making eight points lee- way. By so doing we made a little south- west offing, but were so uneasy, that I expected the masts to go every moment, and all hands were kept on deck in readiness. The tiller broke twice adrift, and two men were bruised*. Standing all night s.s.w., the wind came round and moderated from south-west on the morning of the 30th, but a turbulent short sea was still running. We then kept as nearly N.w.b.N. as our very uncertain compasses, and an occasional glimpse of the sun, would per- mit. At four A.M. the land of Southampton, still a lee-shore, was seen very distant in the north-east. A^ Viwn we obtained the latitude and sights, so '.at if this land is the south- west extreme of the Island of Southampton, (and we had seen nothing to disprove it,) Cape Southampton is laid down 2^* to the westward * From the extraordinary action of the sea, and our known position, it is evident that a constant " race" is to he found off this spot, and subsequent experience has confirmed this conjecture. 75t REMARKABLE STATE i8Mi of its true position. Its latitude is as correct Aufuit. as could be expected, and is by a meridian al- titude of Mirza, under the pole, 61° 50' 35. The longitude by sights of a Lyra is 84° 2* 15'". We stood on all day N.w.b.N., still keeping the ship a couple of points free, to prevent her driving bodily to leeward, which she did when- ever she had not stccrage-way. Our sound- ings continued regular between forty and fifty fathoms ; and no land was seen, so that I was in hopes we had at last entered " The Wel- come.'* Our noon lat. 62° 14' 38', and long. 84° 29' 54", placed us exactly on Southampton Island, and two degrees eastward of Cape Southampton of the charts. In the forenoon watch our larboard compass, which with two others had shewn our head N.b.w., (which with three points and a half westerly variation, agreed with the sun's bear- ing in giving a n.w.^w. course,) suddenly pointed e.n.e., and no tapping or motion would keep it at any other point for two or three minutes, after which it as suddenly re- covered its agreement with the others, and continued quite correct. We now, from re- peated observations, discovered, that when our head was nearly north by compass, the devia- tion was three points and a-half west, but when OF TIIE COMPASSES. 73 between north-west and west, it amounted 18M. to eight points, while with the head to the Aufuit. southward, the compasses would generally rest wherever they were directed by the finger, and sometimes each persisted in maintaining a direction of its own. Barlow's plate now be- came useless, and its want of cftect was decided by finding Gilbert's compass, while under its immediate influence, the dullest in the ship. Ellis, in his account of the expedition of the Dobbs and California, 174(), says, *^ I cannot help taking notice in this place** (while oft* Chesterfield inlet,) '* of an accident that hap- pened to us, and which as it was the object of our astonishment then, has often been the sub- ject of my serious thoughts. In short, amongst these islands, and in sailing through the ice, the needles of Our compasses lost their mag- netical qualities, one seeming to act from this direction, and another under that, and yet they were not for any considerable time constant to any. We laboured to remedy this evil by touching them with an artificial magnet, but to very little purpose, for if they recovered their powers by this means they presently lost them agaip." P. 220. London edit. 1748. With a light wind, but heavy sea, from the south-west, we made a N.w.b.N. course, over H UEMARKAIiI.K STATE I8t4. the place assigned to Southampton Island, Aufiut. with regular soundings between seventy and fifty fathoms. At midnight the wind came fresh from the westward with rain, and as I feared running over a spot where land is laid down as having been discovered, I lay to until day-break of the 31 st. It was now for the first time that I observed, in changing the ship*8 head from north (compass) N.w.b.N. (true) and rounding to jyort, all the compasses changed inversely, N.b.E., north-east to E.b.N. : at which point the ship's head remained while hove to all night, although the wind was un- changed from south-west; thus shewing, as her head was in fact w.n.w., a deviation of fifteen points westerly, with this direction in- creasing gradually as she came round from north by compass. . ' t At four A.M. on the 31 st, I kept away to starboard, and the compasses remained quite steady until we had fallen o£f about four points, all then flew round at the same moment, and when by the pole-star her head was N.w.b.N., all again pointed north most correctly as they had done before. These extraordinary changes in the deviation of the needle could not fail to cause me great anxiety during the long and dark nights, as I was unable, unless our head Ul' THE COMPAStEk. 75 wilt north, to knoir wlien wc approached the latl shore, and having hitherto found the land lo Aufiut. erroneously laid down, it was but natural to suppose that we kIiouUI find the American coast also to the eastward of its assigned place. The wind fell on the morning of the 3l8t, and before noon a calm, with thick fog, set in. Although meridian altitudes and sights were obtained, we yet remained entirely in the dark as to our relative position with respect to the land on either side of us. A light breeze after noon enabled us to keep north- west, as nearly as I could judge, and in the evening we made very low land, distant about ten miles. Its northern extreme bearing n. 23° 43' E. and southern s. 86° 18" e. about fifteen miles. We found ourselves setting as if with a current towards the northern point, and were confirmed in this conjecture by evening sights, giving twelve miles easting since noon^ although we had steered north- west (true.) Throughout the night we steered north'West by the pole-star, and ran under easy sail. Our soundings at ten P.M. were thirty fathoms, between which and twenty-eight they varied continually until thirty minutes after two A.M. on the 1st of September, when w« 76 DANGEROUS SITUATION ( ISH. shoaled to nineteen*. Fearing danger, I Sept. turned the hands up, bnt having shortly deep- ened to twenty-seven and twenty-five, again sent them below. At six A.M. having quickly shoaled to nineteen, running n.n.w. from midnight, I shortened sail, but came to seven- teen at dawn, when we discovered land bear- ing N.N.W. and apparently not continuous to the right, but a thick fog which hung over the horizon limited our view. As our run had been about fifty miles n.n.w., and as I expected to find the American shore east of its position in the charts, I conceived that this would be Cape FuUerton of Middleton, and therefore kept it on our larboard hand, intending to run past it at five or six miles, which was its dis- tance at this time. We soon, however, came to fifteen fathoms, and I kept right away, but had then only ten ; when being unable to see far around us, and observing from the white- ness of the water that we were on a bank, I rounded to at seven A.M., and tried to bring up with the starboard anchor, and seventy fathoms chain, but the stiff breeze and heavy * On our return down the Welcome we discovered a small island, within which we must at this time have r I ^ilK" •jl ' ! n- "*M t I .t*^ •■■>. I f .1 UHfs Ujnii--' yl>i HHji. ^^ufnwt JJlOl it ^!^»^»one persons not one repining word should have been uttered. The officers sat about, wherever they could find shelter from the sea, and the men lay down conversing with each other with the most perfect calmness. Each was at peace with his neighbour and all the world, and I am firmly persuaded that the resignation which was then shewn to the will of the Almighty, was the means of obtaining his mercy. At about six P.M. the rudder, which had already received some very heavy blows, rose, and broke up the after-lockers, and this was the last severe shock which the ship received. We found by the well that she made no water, and by dark she struck no more. God was merciftil to us, and the tide, almost miraculously, fell no lower. At dark, heavy rain fell, but was borne with patience, OF TriE GIIIPER. 81 for it beat down the gale, and brought with it a light air from the northward. At nine P.M. the water had deepened to five fathoms. , The ship kept oif the ground all night, and our exhausted crew obtained some broken rest, ./fi At four A.M. on the 2nd, on weighing the best bower, we found it had lost a fluke, and by eight we had weighed the two other anchors and the stream, which were found uninjured. The land was now more clearly visible, and the highest surf I ever saw was still breaking on it, and on some shoals about half a mile from the shore. Not a single green patch could be seen on the flat shingle beach, and our sense of deliverance was doubly felt from the conviction that if any of us should have lived to reach the shore, the most wretched death by starvation would have been inevitable. In standing out from our anchor- age, which in humble gratitude for our deli- very, I named the " Bay of God's Mercy," we saw the buoy of the anchor we had lost in ten fathoms, and weighed it by the buoy rope, losing therefore only one bower anchor. We now hoisted the longboat in, and an occasional glimpse of the sun enabled us to determine the sitaation of our recent anchorage, which was in lat. 63° 35' 48", long. 86° 32" 00". The o 1894. Sept. 82 LEAVE THE BAY OF GOD'S MERCY. 1^. land all round it was so low that it was scarcely Sept. visible from the deck at five miles' distance, while the point which I had taken for Cape Fullerton, and which I named after Mr. Ken- dall, (assistant surveyor,) was higher than the coast of Southampton hitherto seen, although still low land. The extreme of the right side of the bay was named after Lieutenant Ma- nico. Keeping abreast of Cape Kendall, and steering west in from ten to thirteen fathoms, at six or eight miles off, at seven P.M. we anchored in thirteen fathoms. The weather was calm, with a heavy ground-swell setting for the shore. The ship being now somewhat to rights, I called the hands aft, and] we offered up our thanks and praises to God, for the mercy he had shewn to us. All hands then turned in, and the ship lay quiet for the night. • ' It will be seen by the reduced chart, that the land of the Bay of God's Mercy, lies imme- diately in the centre of the Welcome, which is in consequence, considerably and most dan- gerously narrowed by it. Hence it is evident that although Southampton Island is laid down with a continuous outline, it has in fact never been seen, except at its southern ex- treme. This but too clearly established fact PROGRESS ALONG THE COAST. 83 It the ime- rhich dan- lident laid fact ex- fact could not fail to cause mc great anxiety, and we were only enabled to run during the day- light, and not even then if the weather proved thick, for our compasses being of no use, we were helpless when the sun was clouded. In addition to this, we had been convinced by experience that the ship would nevep work off a lee shore, and our leads were in consequence kept going night and day, to the great fatigue of the men ; who, however, were uncomplain- ing, as they "were aware that by this alone we could obtain timely notice of an approach to land, and be enabled to keep the ship dis* tantfrom it. At four A.M. on the 3d, we weighed, and with an easterly wind, stood, as near as we could judge, w.s.w., at eight miles' distance from the shore. By thirty minutes after seven in the same parallel, we shoaled to seven fathoms, and kept away due south for deeper water. In two miles run we had six- teen fathoms, and then hauled up occasionally as the soundings favoured us, from sixteen to ten fathoms, very irregular bottom. At eleven A.M. we had deepened to thirty, and then kept N.N.w. as we thought, no sun being in sight. Small rain and a fresh wind set in^ and after noon, we fancied that the loom of 02 list. Sept. 84 PROGRESS UP 'Hf* '*"^ ^*y ft'head of us. At four, however, a Sept. heavy gale from e.n.e. brought us under main- top-sail and trysails, and we went on the lar- board tack, as promising the longest drift. The soundings continued during the night at from eighty to ninety-five fathoms ; a heavy sea sent us as usual dead to leeward, s.w., and our compasses on this tack were useless. The gale continued all the 4th, and as our allowance of water was reduced to a quart per diem, only half a ton remaining in the ship, I de- cided on killing our two little ponies, for their hay had all been thrown overboard to clear the decks on the 1st., and their constant exposure to the wash of the sea over the forecastle, on which it was requisite in bad weather to sus- pend them in slings, was reducing them very fast. They were accordingly shot, to the infi- nite regret of all hands, as they were very great favourites. In the evening we had shoaled our water gradually, from ninety-three at midnight of the 3d, to forty-seven fathoms, and in wear- ing ship had only forty-five, which led me to suppose that we had neared the extensive shoal off Cape Kendall. On standing with our head N.N.W., but driving west, we deepened gradu- ally to ninety-five fathoms at midnight. The gale blew with undiminished violence all the THE WEF.c:OME. h5 on 5th, but towards noon the sky began to break, and we obtained observations. The wind, from the sun's bearings, was now found to be N.b.E. In the evening a bright arch rose in the north- west, and we quickly found that tlie gale had shifted with increased violence to that quarter. By night not a cloud was to be seen, and there was every indication of a decided north-west gale. During the first watch, while wearing, the state of our compasses was found as shewn in the Appendix, corresponding exactly with our observations for three days before, which may therefore be depended on. In the act of wearing, we shipped some very heavy seas over all, but were now so accus- tomed to this, that it did not distress us. Our soundings throughout the day had varied from sixty to ninety fathoms. The nights had now become very long and dark, and the lateness of the season, with our slow progress, gave me great anxiety for the ship, situated as she was in a narrow channel of the most uncertain description, and con- stantly exposed to the severity of equinoctial gales. I wished to have found some sheltered anchorage in which to water, and at the same time to examine our rudder, which was evi- dently loosened by the blows it had received ; 1894. Sept. 8ft nKACII AN ANCHORAGE. 1884. but the whole coast hitherto seen, had neither 8«p(' an inlet, nor n single protected indentation. , The morning of the 6th was hcautifiilly clear, but the gale continued undiminished, although by noon it had slowly veered round to west. After noon it moderated, and the sea fell, so that in the evening we made sail, and ran a few miles to the northward. At midnight we hove to on the starboard tack, as the night was very dark, and the stars by which we steered were obscured. The soundings as we lay to were very regular. At twilight on the 7th, I went on deck, intending to keep the ship her course, when I found her head N.w.b.N. on the starboard tack. Her course being north (true,) I would under any other circumstances have kept a close luff, but, not trusting to the compasses, I wore ship, and she having by Compass shifted twenty-nine points in going round, came to north-compass, at which there was now no magnetic error. The wind, being a-beam, must therefore have been west. As we stood on, the breeze gradually freshened to a gale from n.n.w., but we obtained sights, and towards noon the land was seen extending from N.N.w. to north. This we knew must be the land somewhere near Cape Fullerton, and as but little sea arose, I carried on, even although UNDER TAPE WJIJXRTON. 87 w> Hipped the waist hammocks under, to rench 1884. A sheltered anchorage hefore niglit. The wind 8«p». blew with such violence as to cover the sea with one coiitirined foam, but wc succeeded in nnirinp the land, and, having at four P.M. previously furled all the sails, brought up with two bower anchors and seventy fathoms chain, in fifteen fathoms, at four miles from the land, off which the heavy gale blew down to us. Now it was we felt the happiness of boing quietly at anchor; the ship^s company had been casting the deep sea lead every hour i» deep water, and in shoal, every quarter^ for six days and nights, which had kept them con- stantly wet at a temperature rarely above the freezing point ; yet by this labour alone had I been able to keep the ship in safety during the last week of heavy gales. In the evening I spliced the main brace, and issued an extra pint of water ; and the singing and merriment which prevailed between decks, plainly evinced the value my people placed on an evening of rest. The 8th was fine and clear, but the gale very strong. Our position by observation accorded so well with Middleton's chart, that .it was evident we had anchored between Whale Point, and Cape Fullerton. The wind having mode* rated towards evening, I was induced to send li ■ I 88 ANCHORED OFF 188*. two boats for water, and Lieutenant Manico Sept. and Mr. Kendall went in them, the latter gentleman to obtain angles with the theodolite. The flood tide was here observed to come de- cidedly from the south-west, as the ship swung to it while the wind continued fresh ; but I think it may, from the trending of this part of the coast, be rather an eddy, than the true tide, influenced in all probability by the outset from Chesterfield Inlet, whence, Ellis tells us the ebb nms ten hours, while the flood is only two*. -i.. ,.f ' . /» .. .,; ...it -..^MH The officers on their return at midnight with a cargo of water, reported that the whole of the coast on which they had landed, was of the most barren description, of rugged, red, and gray granite rocks, with the strata running in a north-west direction. Several small rocky islets were scattered along the shore, and salt* as well as fresh-water lakes, extended to a con- siderable distance inland. No traces of natives were observable. Five deer were seen, with a quantity of ducks in a moulting state. The boats were left by the tide half a mile up the * The rise and fall was found by the leads to be twenty- three feet. High water, full and change, four o'clock. -lii h ^v ! Velocity of the tide, one mile. m-^ Direction of ebb, w.s.w. Direction of flood, is.n.e. CAPE FULLERTON. 89 )cky rocks, whence it required great labour to carry them to the water, in consequence of the rug- ged state of the coast. At thirty minutes after four, A.M., on the 9th, we weighed, and ran along the land which trended e.n.e. At forty minutes after eight, we arrived abreast of the Eastern Point, seen from our anchorage, at four miles from which the soundings were very irregular, varying suddenly between twenty and nine fathoms, and often being two or three fathoms deeper on one side of the ship than on the other. Rounding this uncer- tain place, the land stretched away north-east to a cape about six miles oW, near which was a small rocky isle, surrounded with numerous dangerous shoals, awash with the water. While abreast of these, and four miles distant, the water shoaled in two casts of the lead from twenty-five to seven and a half fathoms ; and we therefore hauled to the eastward, when having given the land a wide birth, and deep- ened our water to twenty fathoms, we hauled up N.b.E. for a distant point, " Cape Dobbs ?" or " Cape Fry ?" but at one P.M.; from having a cast of twenty-five fathoms, and in the next only twelve, I was again obliged to steer east ; and, the breeze having freshened to a southerly gale, to close reef the topsails. The weather 1834. Sept. 90 PROGRESS UP l\ i i^Mu now became thick with rain, and a heavy sea Sept. quickly arose. The soundings increased nntJl three P.M., from twenty to thirty-one fathoms. A few whales were seen in the afternoon, and it is remarkable that this should be the first time of meeting with them, and also that we should r;ot have seen either a narwhal or a bear, although we had passed through so great a quantity of ice in Hudson's Strait. Having hauled up to north-east at four P.M., and while running five knots before a heavy sea, Mr. Harding saw a white space on the water, having all the appearance of a sandy shoal, he instantly kept away, and running on deck I saw it within half a cable's length of our quar- ter, while at the same moment a cast of the lead gave no bottom with forty fathoms. An appearance, as of a line of breakers, was also seen close a-head, and some of the people on the forecastle declared they saw the land be- yond them. We wore, and stood off on the starboard tack ; and now having no weather shore to afford us either shelter or anchorage, \ve found ourselves obliged to continue under sail all night, in this narrow and extremely dan- gerous channel, to the great anxiety of all hands, and sad fatigue of the men, who were employed unceasingly with deep sea and hand THE WELCOME. ^1 leads, . at a temperature of 28°. Rain fell heavily Avith the gale, and our prospects were most unpromising, when at ten P.M. a low red line was observed to the westward. It slowly arose as an arch, and the whole of the black clouds began to recede from our heads ; a blue and transparent sky in the west, soon dis- covered a few stars shining, and in half an hour the gloom which had shadowed us, fell like a dark cui'tain to the eastward : as it sank, the full moon burst forth from behind it with the greatest brilliancy, and in less than an hour from the first welcome appearance of the fiery streak on the horizon, not an angry cloud was to be seen. A magnificent aurora, composed of all the prismatic colours, flashed wildly and beautifully for a short period, and, as we ex- pected, a heavy north-west gale, succeeded to that from the southward. The sea, however, fell, and we saw distant land in the west. Throughout the night we worked in the centre of the *' Welcome," guided by our leads, and never having less than thirty or above fifty fathoms. Our people suffered a great deal by this most requisite labour, and the hands of many were in so very sore a state, that I caused canvass mittens to be made for the use of the watch on deck; but on this, as on all other Sept. I 92 PROGRESS UP Mi 11' 18S4. occasions, their cheerful alacrity and good'huf- Sept. mour was above all praise. »•»• fi //ov, r> n jmuii The wind had rather decreased at daylight on the 10th, and it was found by the bearing of a remarkable hummock, that we had lost no ground during the night. As the weather moderated, we made sail N.w.b.N., but an un- easy sea prevented our keeping head way. A whale was seen in the forenoon. At three P.M. the land of some part of Southampton, possibly the mountains on its eastern shore, was visible to the north-east, from aloft, while at the same time the apparent termination of the American coast at Cape Dobbs, was north, about thirty miles. > , ^.. ,t.,ior A dry day enabled us to put the people's clothes in order again, yet, such had been our ill success in weather, that the rising of a cloudy or the slightest increase of wind, led us to fear the coming of a gale ; in fact, every breeze for eleven days past had freshened to one be- fore it went down, and the change of wind which succeeded rarely continued for above three hours, but it blew a gale also. . ni I Our barometer had indicated every altera- tion in the weather with the greatest precision, and never was a weather glass more frequently or more anxiously consulted, than was that of THE WELCOME. ts njuu.' the Griper. Lying noith-east during the after- noon, we slowly neared the Southampton shore, and at eight P.M. the wind having freshened considerably from n.n.w. tacked and stood oflF again. We had at this time iifty fathoms, — twelve miles from the shore, and I determined on standing off under easy sail for the night, but lying west (true) directly off the land, we began to shoal gradually, and at one A.M. on the 11th, had only thirty-nine fathoms. We in consequence* stood /or the shore, and again deepened to fifty. The night was cloudy and the temperature 28^, but the moon was occa- sionally seen, and was of great assistance, the compasses having again changed their errors. - Such indeed was the uncertain dependence which could be placed on the compasses, that they were but seldom used, and we depended entirely on celestial bearings, whenever they could be obtained. For this purpose a board had been some time since constructed, having a moveable tin compass on its centre, round which were marked the hours of the day. The south point of this compass was di- rected to the hour at which the body seen would come to the meridian, and by pointing the hour at which it was observed towards it, the ship's course at the moment was easily 1834. Sept. PROGRESS UP im. ascertained. This simple method^ however, sub- 8ep*' jected us to great anxiety and inconvenience, as the weather sometimes continued thick for twp or three days and nights, and it was then impos- sible to run in any direction. Yet, by this con- trivance alone were we obliged to steer for above six weeks. The forenoon of this day was cloudy, and at noon we stood into thirty-three fathoms at about eight miles from the shore of South- ampton, which is here considerably higher, with a gradual ascent, than any other part of it we had yet been off. The wind being scant, and the ebb in our favour, we again stood out for an offing, but soon after noon, on the wea- ther falling calm, and finding we neared the shore, 1 brought up in thirty-three fathoms, with the stream at five miles from the beach* The American shore was at this time visible from the mast-head at about thirty miles dis- tant, and extending from north-west to w.n.w. with a broad apparent opening, probably the entrance of the " Wager River," between its extreme points. ^ ' ' < ' " • "" 'I I sent Messrs. Manico and Kendall in two boats for water, and to make observations, and while awaitirp ihAr return, we foTmd theflood- tide setting to the southward half a knot an Ml THE WErXOMF.. 95 *H r, sub*- ice, ae )r tWQ mpos- is oon- ser for and at ms at South- tiigher, part of ; scant, )od out le wea- red the thorns, beach* visible ies dis- .N.W. ily the sen its I tn two s, and Jlood- lot an hour, but the bottom was too irregular to ^ 884 . allow of our accurately marking its rise. A • S«pt. light breeze sprung up from the eastward as the boats came on board in the evening, and I endeavoured to beat nearer to the shore and anchor for the night, but the wind was too scant, and the tide prevented us. The officers reported to me that they had found the sound-* ings to decrease with great regularity as they approached the shore, and when at a mile from it, they had fouiteen fathoms, carrying it into two fathoms at landing. . The beach was of shingle lime-stone, thrown up into long ridges by the action of the sea, and it trended n.n.w., and s.s.e., with many small points projecting about half a mile from it, and forming shallow little bays. The country inland presented a fine level appear- ance for several miles, when the land rose gradually into moderately high hills. The plain was rich in the usual Arctic plants, but the flowers had all withered. Fresh water lakes were very numerous, and covered with ice two inches in thickness, which accounted for a dazzling refracted glare which had been ob- served over the shore all day. Five deer were seen, and fourteen eider and pintail ducks, in a moulting state, were killed. The vertebrae of I 9G DESCRIPTION OP AN ESQUIMAUX TOMB. J 11114. a whale, and the bones of other animalsj were S«|)t. lying scattered on the beach near a long for- saken winter hut, and Mr. Kendall found a grave in which a body, apparently disinterred by some animal, was lying with the head to the north-west. Near the hut were a quantity of stones ranged in pairs and forming a large semi-circle, a short stone suppoiting a long one, thus. 'JU ' t A t I 1 The tide was observed to flow rapidly between two and three P.M., quickly filling all the little bays, and the high water-marks on the beach indicated a rise of twenty-three feet. / The night being very fine, I determined on running slowly at five or six miles* distance from the shore, which appeared to trend N.b.w., and to be guided by the regularity of the soundings, which at midnight had increased from thirty-three to forty fathoms. We had steered up to this period by the moon and pole-star. .•'*• ,.tv,i ,j,j{' *>f»^f * .')it>-'t »*»iiJ8a • A.M. of the 12th, we gradually began shoal- ing to thirty-two, thirty, twenty-six, and at four A.M. to twenty-two fathoms ; when fancying we were near some part of Southampton Island, which we had not yet seen, I kept away a couple If/'" BAD SAILING OP THE GHIPER. 97 pointSj but at thirty minntes after four, saw steep, rocky, and broken land, with many rug- ged islets off it, on our larboard bow, to whicli we must have been swept by some very rapid current or indraft ; from its appearance, as it was not continuous to the southward, but trended away westerly, I am led to suppose it to have been Cape Montague, which is said to bound the northern entrance to the " Wager." As the breeze freshened at daylight from the north-east, and we were only in seventeen fathoms, rocky bottom at four miles from the islands, I tacked jit five, and made all the sail we could carry, to work out of the indraft. We got but slowly off, for being so much below her bearings, the ship would not stand up under much sail, and towards noon saw Southampton Island to the eastward about eighteen miles. I was, for a time, in hopes of getting under its lee, but the wind soon increased to a gale with cutting showers of sleet, and a sed, began to arise. At such a moment as this, we had fresh cause to deplore the extreme dulness of the Gh'iper^s sailing, for though almost any other vessel would have worked off this lee shore, we made little or no progress on a wind, but remained actually pitching forecastle under, with scarcely steerage way, to preserve which H 1884. Sept. 98 DANGEROUS SITUATION ;i ; !••* ' I was ultimately obliged to keep her nearly S«pt. two points off the wind. We, however, per- severed in our endeavours to make easting under foresail and close-reefed main-topsail, but at thirty minutes after one, P.M., with our head N.N.W., we quickly shoaled from thirty to twenty fathoms, and as we could not see a quarter of a mile round us, in consequence of the heavy snow, I turned the hands up to be in readiness for wearing ; but the next cast gave ten, and I therefore luffed the ship to, and let go both bower inchors, which brought her up with seventy and eighty fathoms. I then let go the sheet anchor under foot. From the time of striking low soundings until this was done, the sails furled, and lower yards and topmasts struck, half an hour had not elapsed. In this sad di- lemma, I would have endeavoured to wear the ship, although I knew not from the thickness of the weather, how close we might be to the rocks, but this manoeuvre was unfortunately the most difficult for her to perform, and from her great depth in the water, she had on many occasions in strong gales, been a quarter of an hour in getting before the wind ; but one alternative therefore remained, and valuable as our an- chors were to us, and badly as the ship rode, I was obliged to attempt to bring her up. We OF THE GRIPER. ! 99 found that the anchori held, although the ship was dipping bowsprit and forecastle under, and taking green seas over all. These soon wetted every one thoroughly, and the lower deck was flooded before we could batten down the hatches. Thick falling sleet covered the decks to some inches in depth, and with all the spray, froze as it fell. ^ a,- We now perceived that the tide was setting past us from the noith-east at the rate of two knots on the surface, but by its action on the lead-line, and even the deep sea lead which it swept from the bottom, it was running at a far more rapid rate beneath. This, in addition to the heavy set of the sea, strained the ship very much, and the bitts and windlass complained a great deal ; the hands, therefore, remained on deck in readiness for all emergencies. To add still farther to our anxiety, two or three streams of ice, having some very deep solid pieces amongst them, were seen driving down to us in the evening, and threatened the loss of our bowsprit, which at every pitch dipped quite under water, but it only fell on light pieces, and all the damage we sustained, was the loss of the bobstays, and larboard iron bumpkin. The tide appeared to slack at six P.M., at which time we had thirteen fathoms and a half, H2 I8i4 100 DANGEROUS SITUATION 1^4. gQJ tlie ship rode somewhat more easily at her ®*P** anchors. At midnight it waa low water, eight fathoms and a half> shewing a rise and full of thirty feet. The niglit was piercingly cold, and the sea continued to wash fore and aft the decks, while constant snow fell. As the lower deck was afloat, our people and all their ham- mocks thoroughly soaked, no rest could he obtained. Never shall I forget the dreariness of thi^ most anxious night. Our ship pitched at such a rate, that it was not possible to stand even below, while on deck we were unable to move without holding by ropes which were stretched from side to side. The drift snow flew in such sharp heavy flakes, that we could not look to windward, and it froze on deck to above a foot in depth. The sea made inces- sant breaches quite fore and aft the ship, and the temporary warmth it gave while it washed over us, was most painfully checked by its al- most immediately freezing on our clothes. To these discomforts were added the horrible un- certainty as to whether the cables would hold tmtil day-Ught, and the conviction also that if they failed us, we should instantly be dashed to pieces ; the wind blowing directly to the qvi&rter in which we knew the shore must He. OF THE OniPER. 101 Agnin, shonld they continue to hold us, we feared by the ship's complaining so ninch for- ward, that the bitts would be torn up, ov that she would settle down at her anchors, over- powered by some of the tremendous seas which burst over her. * During the whole of this time, streams of heavy ice (Continued to drive down upon us, any of which, had it hung for a moment against the cables, would have broken them, and at the same time have allowed the bowsprit to pitch on it and be destroyed. The masts would have followed this, for we were all so ex- hausted, and the ship was so coated with ice, that nothing could have been done to save them. We all lay down at times during the night, for to have remained constantly on deck would have quite overpowered us ; I constantly went up, and shall never forget the desolate picture which was always before me. *- The hurricane blew with such violence as to be perfectly deafening ; and the heavy wash of the sea made it difficult to reach the main- mast, where the officer of the watch and his people sat shivering, completely cased in frozen snow, under a small tarpaulin, before which ropes were stretched to preserve them in their 1894. 8ept. 102 DANGEROUS SITUATION i I8t4. places. I never beheld a darker nighty and Sept. its gloom was increased by the rays of a small horn lantern which was suspended from the mizen stay to shew where the people sat. ' *-^ At dawn on the 13th, thirty minutes after four, A.M., we found that the best bower cable had parted, and as the gale now blew with terrific violence, from the north, there was little reason to expect that the other anchors would hold long ; or if they did, we pitched so deeply, and lifted so great a body of water each time, that it was feared the windlass and forecastle would be torn up, or she must go down at her anchors ; although the ports were knocked out, and a considerable portion of the bulwark cut away, she could scarcely discharge one sea before shipping another, and the decks were frequently flooded to an alarming depth. At six A.M., all farther doubts on this particu- lar account were at an end, for, having received two overwhelming seas, both the other cables went at the same moment, and we were left helpless, without anchors, or any means of saving ourselves, should the shore, as we had every reason to expect, be close astern. And here again I had the happiness of witnessing the same general tranquillity as was shewn on ^£he 1st of September. There was no outcry OP THE GRIPER. 103 that the cables were gone, but my friend Mr. 1884. Manico^ with Mr. Carr the gunner, came aft as Sept. soon as they recovered their legs, and in the lowest whisper, informed me that the cables had all parted. The ship, in trending to the wind, lay quite down on her broadside, and as it then became evident that nothing held her, and that she was quite helpless, each man in- stinctively took his station, while the seamen at the leads, having secured themselves as well as was in their power, repeated their soundings, on which our preservation depended, with as much composure as if we had been entering a friendly port. Here again that Almighty Power which had before so mercifully preserved us, granted us his protection, for it so happened that it was slackwater when we parted, the wind had come round to n.n.w. (along the land,) and our head fell off to north-east, or seaward ; we set two try- sails, for the ship would bear no more, and even with that lay her lee gunwale in the water. In a quarter of an hour we were in seventeen fa- thoms. Still expecting every moment to strike, from having no idea where we had anchored, I ordered the few remaining casks of the provi- sions received from the Snap, to be hove over- board, for being stowed round the capstan and abaft the mizen-mast, I feared their fetching 104, THE SHIP DRIVES WITHOUT 18S4. way should we take the ground. At eight the Sept. fore trysail gaff went in the slings, but we were unable to lower it, on account of the amazing force of the wind, and every rope being encrusted with a thick coating of ice. The decks were now so deeply covered with frozen snow and freezing sea-water, that it was scarcely possible, while we lay over so much, to stand on them ; and all hands being wet and half frozen, without having had any re- freshment for so many hours, our situation was rendered miserable in the extreme. * ; Standing with our head to the north-east, we deepened the water, but increased the sea and wind, which latter was alone of sufficient strength to stave the larboard waist boat against the side of the ship, and also to damage that on the quarter by the same means. ,1 Ji*t ; At eleven A.M. a wave filled and swept away the starboard waist boat, from which most pro- videntially the lead*8 man had just been called, with her davits and the swinging boom. At noon a dim meridian altitude was obtained, and at two P.M. we observed Southampton Island from N.N.E. to E.b.s., very indistinctly, and dis- tant eighteen or twenty miles, but could see nothing of the coast we had left, as it was still covered by dark clouds and snow-storms. ANCHORS DOWN THE WELCOME. 105 In rtie afternoon, having well weighed in my mind all the circumstances of our distressed situation, I turned the hands up and informed them, that " having now lost all our bower anchors, and chains, and being in consequence unable to bring up in any part of the Wel- come ; being exposed to the sets of a tremen- dous tide-way and constant heavy gales, one of which was now rapidly sweeping us back to the southward, and being yet above eighty miles from Repulse Bay, with the shores lead- ing to which we were unacquainted ; our compasses useless, and it being impossible to continue under sail with any degree of safety in these dark twelve-hour nights, with the too often experienced certainty that the ship could liot beat off a lee-shore even in moderate wea- ther, I had determined on making southing, to clear the narrows of the Welcome, after which I should decide on some plan for our firture operations." i i^I could not, however, put my intention of bearing up into immediate execution, in conse- (Juence of the still continued gale, and the ina- bility of the Griper to scud in any sea. We therefore passed the night in wearing and making short boards, guided entirely by the 18S4. Sept. m 106 , I/m'i PASSAGE DOWN 1884. soundings. The thermometer was at 24**, but IStpt. the cold was exquisitely painful to men who had been constantly exposed for two days and ' nights to tlie wash of a freezing sea, without any rest, or a single warm meal, and sounding, with hands nearly raw, every half hour with the deep sea lead, and frequently with the hand leads. The morning of the 14th was fine but cloudy, and the wind, still from noi*th-west, had decreased to a fresh breeze. Temp. 26^. After some hour's labour in breaking the ice from the decks and rigging, we succeeded in swaying up the lower yards and topmasts, and by ten A.M. set reefed courses, and close reefed topsails ; steering south-west. It was now observed that the head of the foremast was much wrung, and there was every reason to fear that the bowsprit was injured. As the Bbip*s company had no bedding but what was thoroughly soaked, and in our small between- decks we could not at this time dry it, I or- dered all the store blankets in the ship to be lent to them, two to each man, until their own should be fit for use, for I feared their health would suffer, and indeed several cases of rheumatism had already appeared. rp Ih ?fii5ni ban .«jlrrn itf?9?rf-^3i'^ 'ij !>i6v;'- SIR THOMAS ROWE'S WELCOME. 107 ' In the evening we made the American shore, and knew from our noon latitude and mn, that we were off Cape Fullerton at dark. We therefore kept the ship parallel with the shore, at about fifteen miles' distance, steering south-west as near as we could judge ; one com- pass giving N.N.W., the other north-west, but an occasional glimpse of the moon, and a ** blink'* which lay over the snow covered land, were of the greatest assistance in keeping a course. We this day bent the hempen cable to our stream-anchor, intending it as a bower, and to a small kedge of four cwt. we bent the stream cable, but both together were too small to be depended on in any weather but a calm. At thirty minutes after ten P.M. we sud- denly shoaled our water to thirty fathoms, and then keeping north-east, to twenty, when shortening sail, I stood right off the shore and came to seventeen, on which I slowly wore, and steering our first course south-west, deep- ened to thirty ; and by four A.M. of the 15th, to forty-nine fathoms ; not, however, without having been under great anxiety, as our two little anchors were quite inadequate to hold us, if it had been requisite to bring to. At day-light we saw the land to the west- ward at about eighteen miles, and made all 1884. Sfpt. !!i ! J I 108 REMARKS ON ia84b sail south-west. I had kept on this course, as Sept I before said, in order to clear the " narrows," in which another gale would, in our present helpless state, have been destruction to us: i '^ >• It was now but too evident that we could no longer expect to pass up the Welcome, or in- deed to approach any coast on which there was a probability of our requiring to anchor ; more particularly as the shores we had hither- to seen, had not a single bay or indentation in them, much less a place of sufficient security to allow of our anchoring in it with a stream. The Wager alone is an exception to this ; but the influence of its tides, which, according to Middleton, run five, and as is asserted by Ellis > eight or nine * knots, is felt for many miles ahove the entrance, and as the Griper's best sailing never exceeded six knots, it is hardly probable, even allowing she had the fairest wind, to suppose she could hold her own against the tide ; and having no anchors, she ' was of course unable to approach the shores for the purpose of tiding it up. Douglas' Harbour and Deer Sound, are thirty and twenty leagues up the inlet, and if the gales in the former were strong enough to drive the California from her two anchors and put her in great * Pp. 249, 250. London Edit. 1748. .■r Orn SITUATION. 109 as danger*, we could have but little chance of 1984. riding in safety with only a stream anchor. But Sept. even supposing that I had succeeded in finding a wintering place, and being firmly frozen in, the same difficulties must have been again en- countered the following year, and no advan- tages would have been gained. I had at first an idea of running for Fort York, or Churchill, but as the shoals off these places are very dangerous *{-, and even the company's ships require pilots, and the advan- tage of paiticular tides to pass them J, there was little reason to hope that we could succeed in doing so, as we could not now anchor to await the favourable time of tide, or even while a boat should be despatched for assist- ance to the factories, which are out of sight from the deck of a ship when anchored off "The Flats." ..„. .. .. - i Marble Island, according to Middleton and £lUs, is the only spot along the whole Ame- riq^n coast from Churchill upwards, which * iSllis, p. 269. London Edit. 1743.,,,^^^. ^ ., ,0 j,,, ,^ t Ibid, p. 149. ' 1 i s, ; ,[, ,. . J ' It is also requisite that the channels should be buoyed for the guidance of the ships, as the sands shift ; and when the season is over, these buoys are alWays taken up by a vessel kept for the purpose. . ,,, ^ . • : I . -4' 1 All ,41 III m i i!^ no REASONS FOR OUR ! . i , 18fi4. affords tolerably good anchorage ; but as the Sept. place in which their ships lay was a roadsted, we had no prospect of hanging on in it until the ice secured u''. There is, however, an ex- cellent harbour in the island, in which the ves- sels of the unfortunate Knight and Barlow were wrecked, and all hands perished by fa- mine in 1719-22*, but its entrance is danger- ous -f^, and according to Ellis, who appears to have surveyed it, there is a bar across its mouth on which at spring tides there are only thirteen feetj ; and as the Griper drew sixteen feet, it was of course closed to us. '^ ^^'^^vujmix With these difficulties before me, and anxious to do what was best for the service ; consider- ing that the company's ships were frequently as late as this period in leaving the facto- ries, I decided on endeavouring to reach Hud- son's Strait, and proceeding to England, well knowing that although our risk in again pass- ing Southampton Island would be very great, yet it was no worse than searching for winter quarters, and Mansel Island being once passed* we should be in comparative safety. In order, however, to satisfy myself still farther in this , * Barrow's Voyagec to the Polar Regions, p. 272. t Ibid, p. 276. J Ellis. Voyage of the Dobbs and California, p. 14S. RETURNING TO ENGLAND. Ill '2. measure, I addressed a letter to my ufHcers, requesting their respective opinions on our situation, without stating my own : and their individual answers advised, " that in conse-> quence of our loss of anchors, &c., we should return to England without delay." I therefore bore up, after having informed all hands of my plans ; and thus were all our present hopes of discovery and reputation completely overthrown ; our past difficulties of no avail, and oiur only consolation, thv^t to the latest moment every exertion had been made for the performance of the service on which we had been sent. Individually, 1 felt most pain- fully the situation in which I was placed, in a ship but ill adapted, in her present over-loaded state, to navigate in these or any other seas, and my only suppoit was in the hope that the strictest investigation might be made into the conduct of myself and those under my com- mand, and that the Lords of the Admiralty would again furnish me forth, and allow me an opportunity of shewing, that the failure of this expedition was not to be attributed to any want of zeal on my part, or of support from my most valuable officers and men. 1884. Sept. I i I. US. 112 PROGRESS TOWARDS l! ' ISM. After noon, on Wednesday, Septelnb^ Sept. Idth, 1824, with a sad heart, I bore up and steered w.b.N., by compass, which I believed to be about south, (true,) for there was no son to assist us, although a *^ blink" over the dii- taut snow-covered land astern, afforded a mark by which we steered for a few hours. At eight P.M., having run twenty-five miles, and not daring to trust to the compasses, I hove to, and our soundings, as we drifted, increased gradually to seventy fathoms, on the morning of the 16th, when the moon was seen at times^ and by her we bore up and steered s.s.e. In the space of half an hour all three compasses took a sudden turn from west to east, and, as they continued steady, I was led to suppose they had resumed their errors as shewn on the dth an^ 6th *, when we were not far from our present situation. By the sun at eight A.M. this waS' most accurately confirmed, but while running during the forenoon, the compasses again be^ came unsteady. A light breeze springing up^ in the afternoon, from s.b.E. (true,) gave out* head E.b.s. (true,) yet the three compasses agreed in shewing a variation of three points and a half easterly on this course. 4>*»*»" ^tiotr Our run at noon having given us one hun- *' ' * Vide Appendix. *.uj// \HUV HUDSON'S BAY. 113 had and esent was lun-^' dred and thirty-fonr miles, which was far greater than our dead reckoning, established the existence of a very strong current, and led me to suppose that the flood-tide from the northward in the Welcome^ continues much longer than the ebb. ^ Small snow fell, but the weather continued moderate. The quiet of the past night in deep water, and constant fires for drying clothes, &c., shewed their united good effects upon our people on this day, for, with one or two ex- ceptions, all were refreshed and well. Our larboard boat was hoisted in, and the car- penters repaired her broadside, which had been stove on the 13th, before dark. A mo- derate breeze continued to blow, as we sup- posed, from the southward. Our head all the afternoon was north-east, which by using the corrections of the 6th, would give a south-east course. We, however, had nothing to confirm this, and therefore kept two leads going all night, during which we continued to run, as no time was now to be lost in making southing. ^ During the first watch we steered north-east twelve miles, which, with our supposed devia- tion, would give east, or E.b.s. (true,) and at midnight tacked in eighty-six fathoms. The wind, which was still believed to be s.s.e., I 1884. Sept. I tl4 rnOGRKSS TOWARDS is84» remained light, and small snow fell occasionally. Sept. Xhe compasses in going about, gave our head H.N.W., (supposed to be south-west, [true J ) on which course we made two miles, when at one A.M. on the 1 7th, all the cards ran round, and would afterwards remain at no fixed point. I was therefore obliged to heave to, until we should sec the moon, which at three A.M. ap- peared, her true bearing being then s.E.b.E. ; and steering by her s.w.b.s., we now found that the wind was west. At four A.M. we had eighty-seven fathoms. I cannot but be aware that these compass and celestial bearings which are so often repeated, must fatigue many of my readers, and render the narrative of a very dull voyage doubly tedious, but I dwell on them particularly as being facts which so materially interested us at the moment, and by attention to which, a ship in such a situation as ours, could alone be navigated in safety. ^^ Having ran from three to seven A.M., about eleven miles s.E.b.s, the water was observed to have changed to a very light colour, and our soundings had decreased to forty-three fa- thoms. From the mast-head I saw low land, di^itant and indistinctly to the eastward, and bearing from E.b.N. to E.b.s., and therefore hauled off to the southward by the sun's bear- I.ll HUDSON'S BAY. 115 ing. There can be no donbt that the land now seen was an island, which I named after Mr. Tom, in whose watch it was first dis- covered, and that as our track from Cape Southampton to the Bay of God*s Mercy on the 31st August, lay thirty miles to the east- ward, we must have been actually passing within it at the time when our soundings de- creased to nineteen fathoms, and it was most fortunate that on then shoaling the water we had not kept away to the westward, which must in that case have ran us directly upon it. During the forenoon we passed a great quantity of tangle-weed, and some which was picked up had quantities of small bivalve shells attached to the blades and leaves. The stalk of one piece which we measured, was eighteen feet in len^^h, and the leaf, although a portion had been torn from its point, twelve feet six inches, making a total of thirty feet six inches. It would appear that at this time the stream was setting to the westward, as all the blades were floating in that direction. Re- peated observations had now enabled us to judge with tolerable precision, of the set of the tides, by the way in which the tangle-weed floated in the water ; the broad flat blade acting on thp I 2 1M4. Sept. E f! 4 ih PROGRESS TOWARDS •M! I! 11tt4. sanie prmciple as the vane of a weatuer-^ock, Sept. and being thus inflnenced. " *'■"'''" ^''^ ^ ' '" ^^^ \J: . i -l 11, ^iii'ji'i/Urt *l =^*»^i 1 ' ' *<^ 'i^:J/!.. .- J |\ i'-n.v^^V'jiiibnifOt* »iJ;Oj* i\- •' \ 1 __^^lMdlf Tfitii* •^'■•lif'Jl' '*'* i 1 1 K'm.-'t^j f ^ "i^[ ,^y\'>:>- r-''^'.-' ^i^^^ •^(.C ■ ■ r-if • .MJ '''ixi'fU'mi ■iM. -..',\ |-.-,-.^'* ' . , :. >r>< ■>.^ KhUiti^}- ...„-,.,. J ..... - ■ t .^ i),itYtt^ "f. Towards noon^ light snow began falling, and continued for three or four hours, yet we ob- tained a meridian altitude and sights, and the weather was calm until three P.M., when a light breeze sprang up from n.n.e., but soon veered to N.N.w. The soundings at noon were eighty, but they gradually decreased until nine P.M. to forty fathoms, although we had steered south-west about eleven miles ; at thirty mi- nutes after nine we had forty-eight fathoms. We had hitherto kept south-west, in order to deepen the soundings, as, from the recent dis- covery of " Tom's Island" and the shoalness of the water while seventy miles from any known land, there was reason to fear we might meet with other low islands. We now kept s.s.w. until midnight, with the wind fi'om the northward, but finding that we had not yet above forty-four fathoms, it was to be . livji j jiUJic HUDSON'S BAY. 117 feared that we were still on a bank, so hauling up west, under easy sail, we again deepened to fifty jight fathoms. It is remarkable that our soundings should have continued so low while standing from the shore, bui' this may in some measure be accounted for, by our having as- certained beyond a doubt, that there was here a strong and constant easterly set*, which, as the ship had but little way, must have kept her nearly stationary. Hence it may be af- firmed, that what has hitherto been called Southampton Island, is in fact a group of low, shoal, and extremely dangerous isles, between which, possibly through " Evans' Inlet,'* the strong current set from Sir Thos. Roe's Wel- come into Hudson's Strait ; a momentary glance, however, at the formation and position of the lands on the chart, will more fully ex- plain this than I can do by description. At four A.M. on the 18th, with the wind from the northward, we steered south-east by the moon, and had an excellent run. Our IBM. Sept. I ♦ During an interval of dead calm, with the deep sea lead at the bottom in forty-five fathoms, the ship was found to drive due east above a knot an hour. \. Vide also August 31, for an account of our setting in the evening towards a point of land near our present situation. ,. . > " , m 118 PROdRESS TOWARDS Ifl^. ttooii position again gave a remarkable proof 8e^. of the strength of the easterly set, as the lati- tudes b^ observation and dead reckoning were the same, but the observed longitude was twenty-eight miles to the eastward of that by account, thence shewing a constant set of above one knot an hour, ' m ?-- In the afternoon, the magnetic error of the compasses was found to have decreased very considerably*. Small snow fell occasionally throughout the day, and one very fresh squall obliged us suddenly to shorten sail ; but the weather quickly moderating, it was set again. Although the clouds, during the past week, had began to assume their hard wintry forms and colours, the temperature continued compa- ratively moderate. Very little weed was seen on this day, a happy proof of our being clear of the banks which had so long perplexed and alaimed us; and the sea had re-assumed its darker hue, to which we had so long been un- accustomed. Running till ten P.M., we lay to for the night, as I had reason to suppose we were to the southward of Cape Southampton, and was more particularly confirmed in this opinion from the See Appendix. M I" HUDSON'S BAY. 119 compasses having all again become restless. This agitation having frequently been observed on other nights, between the hours of nine and eleven, had always been the cause of great anx- iety to me, while endeavouring to steer a course after dark, unless the moon or stars were clearly visible ; and it is well worthy of consideration, whether this wildness of motion in the com- passes is at all caused by the absence of the sun, or is in any way occasioned by the presence of the Aurora, which phenomenon was rarely seen earlier than nine P.M., and the time when it was most vivid was generally at about ten. At this hour, on one occasion, Mr. Kendall observed, that during the prevalence of an unusually brilliant Aurora, the larboard binnacle compass would remain stationary at no particular point, while the starboard one, by a bearing of the Pole-star, had lessened its accustomed error two points. By a bearing of the s^an on the following morning, it was found to have re- assumed its original position. At daylight on the 19th all sail was made to the north-east, (compass) expecting that the magnetic error of the preceding day would still be applicable, and that we should make an east course ; but a glimpse of the sun at eight A.M., saved us from much danger, by shewing 1834. Sept. 120 PBPCBES9 ROUND lij » i^f* t^t north-east, (compaiss) was in fact north-east Sept. true, and that there was now no magnetic error i on that hearing. At nine A.M., therefore, we were constrained to heave to, ahsolutely froia not knowing how to steer, and in the forcr noon the opportune appearance of the sun enabled me to discover new errors. From this circumstance, I began to entertain hopes that the compasses were gradually recover- ing themselves, but as the sun was very soon hidden again, we ran forward in doubt, as, should the compasses so far regain their pola- rity as only to require correction for the regu- lar variations, without our being aware of it at the moment, we should carry the ship directly for the shoals, while imagining that we were running some points clear of them. This oc- casioned me considerable anxiety, which would have been not a little increased by the time we . were losing, and the water we were expending, had not Mr. Leyson (Assistant-surgeon,) with his usual zeal and quickness, contrived an in- genious and simple method of distilling water from the coppers, which ensured us, while the weather was moderate, a quart a man per diem. I was of course aware that we had a full navi- gable fortnight before us, yet could not but feel we thjp^ THE SOlTHEIlN SHORE. 121 present helpless state, I dared not approach the Southampton shore for a supply, and it was very douhtful when we might reach .Hudson's Strait, and, even in doing so, if we should find any ice, from which we might fill our tanks, still remaining in it. ' Had it not been for Mr. Leyson's contri- vance, I was about to reduce our daily allow- ance of water from a quart to a pint, which would have been far too little for our support. It may be well imagined how tantalizing it must have been for us to know that water could have easily been procured, had we been enabled to anchor, and also to reflect, that, in a country whose seas are almost constantly filled with ice, we should, when we most wished for it, be unblessed with the sight of the smallest morsel. The prospect of having a homeward passage of some thousand miles before us, with only the uncertain supply from distilla- tion for our support, was not the most enli- vening, and I, in consequence, stopped all salt provision, and only issued such as was not likely to induce thirst. The wind freshened slowly from the south- ward as we lay to during the night, which was very dark ; and on the morning of the 20th, yye were under main-topsail and trysails. Snow I8S4. Sept. i1 i 122 REMARKS ON ISM. began falling, and a heavy sea soon rose. Im- Sept mediately before the gale set in, the barometer rose to 30.312, which was higher than we had hitherto seen it, but it fell again as quickly to 28.021, at which it continued until the weather changed. The wind, as we imagined, veered round during the day to south-east, whence it blew with great violence. Having now been two days without obtaining observations, or suffi- cient sights of the sun to ascertain if our com- passes had changed their errors, there was reason to apprehend that Southampton was now a lee-shore to us, but as we had from sixty to eighty fathoms, it was probably still distant. The snow fell so thickly towards evening, that our people obtained a quantity of water, in addition to their dail) quart. ' I was now much concerned to observe, that in each succeeding gale, the ship's decks became more leaky, and that the shocks she had re- ceived in the ** Bay of God's Mercy," with the severe strains experienced while at anchor on the 12th and 13th, had loosened her upper- works very considerably. The heavy seas which we shipped continually all this day and night, kept our lower-deck and cabins constantly flooded, for the opening of the seams allowed of the water finding its way to the cork^ining. THE WEATHER. 123 from whence it dropped for many hours after we had ceased to take the sens over all. The lower-deck had not now been dry for three weeks, and was in a most unwholesome state ; but we were quite unable to remedy this, for the hatches were of necessity always battened down, and M^hen that was the case the galley- fire would not draw. Silvester's stove might, indeed, have been of some use, but we could not try its effect, as the square of the main- hatchway, the space in front of the stove, and even its warm air-chamber, were still crowded with small stores, which we had not room to stow elsewhere. With all these discomforts, nothing could equal the patience and good conduct of my men, who bore all their recent reverses with admirable fortitude. ' '*'*^^ The gale continued all night, but a moi^t alarming sea, or *' race," arose at midnight, caused, in all probability, by the conflux of the - tides of the Welcome and that from Hudson's Strait, and which, on the 29th August, had been experienced while the ship was in her present position, in an equally dangerous de- gree. The sea had no decided set, but pitched *• up and down," notwithstanding the violence of the wind, and it frequently happened that we shipped four seas at the same time, one 18M. 134 PAfiSAQB BOUND 1884. over each bow and quarter, without the power Sept. of avoiding them; so that our decks weiie completely flooded. ., : . .^'f t. .fa.fir The morning of the 21st was not more favourable than the past night had been, but we were so fortunate as to obtain observations. The wind moderated from n.n.e. towards night, and we set close-reefed topsails and courses. During the night the sky cleared, and observ- ations were obtained for magnetic errors. The wind became variable. i-f passing Mansel Island by nightfall. Stand- ing E.N.E. forty-five miles, we did not make it at eight P.M., although it is laid down as only that distance from Cape Pembroke. We therefore stood on all night east (true), but allowing for lee-way, e.n.b., and had no bot- 1894. Sept. 126 ENTER AGAIN INTO 1884 Sept. torn by frequent soundings at one hundred fathoms. The wind freshened to a gale in the first watch, and we again experienced the same extraordinary and alarming sea, or *' race," as on the 29th August and 20th of this month, and the ship lay like a vessel water-logged, and took it over on all sides. At ten P.M. it filled and washed away our stern-boat, with some boats* arm and provision, and instrument- chests which were stowed in her, and very fre- quently fell in a heavy wave over the taffril. We kept, however, a little head-way on the ship under the main-topsail and trysail, and on the morning of the 24th the wind moderated so as to allow of our making more sail. We gained a little easting, and at noon obtained meridional altitude. !:' At three P.M. land was reported ahead, and to our most agreeable sui'prise we found it, by a set of sights which had at first been rejected as taken too near noon, to be Cape Wolsten- holm. In an hour or two some remarkable points which had been set when we first passed the Cape, were clearly seen, and our situation most accurately ascertained, shewing, that in addition to our excellent run (having averaged five knots for twenty-four hours, a rate at which the Griper had never before arrived on this HUDSON'S STRAIT. 127 (I J' voyaget) a current had set u» thirty miles east- ^M* * waid of our reckoning, which shews its rate at ^P** about a mile and a half an hour. - >< i^ This having been the case on the preceding ii\ day's run, renders it evident, that the long fetch from the bottom of Hudson*s Bay, during the prevalence of a southerly wind, must bring a great pressure of water on the channels east and west of Mansel Island, overpowering all tides, and extending even beyond the narrows of the passage. This may account for the dan- gerous " races" we had twice passed through off Cape Southampton, as well as that of which I have spoken above, caused by the opposition of the tide of flood to this great southern rush of water. During the night there was a con- tinued calm, with heavy rain, yet we found ourselves carried in the first watch to about ten miles to the eastward of Cape Wolsten- }iolai. . - Towards dawn of the 25 th, a light breeze sprang up from the east^*'ard, and as the day broke, we found ourselves about ten miles from the opening between Nottingham and Salis- bury Islands, off which a close but narrow stream of ice was lying. As we now had but a few days' water remaining, I gladly stood for the ice, and heaving to at eight A.M., sent the '%.: 128 A VISIT FROM SOME 18M. boats for a supply. They, however, found all the Sept. pools frozen, but returned with sufficient blocks of ice to thaw into three tons of water, which was still too small a quantity for our homeward passage, but which circumstances prevented our increasing. While lying off the stream, thirteen kayaks most unexpectedly came off to us, for it had always been understood that these islands were uninhabited, and from their high precipitous appearance, I should not have fan- cied them suited to the Esquimaux, who gene- rally establish themselves on low ground, and near shoal water. • '- I could not but compare the boisterous, noisy, fat fellows who were alongside, in ex- cellent canoes, with well-furnished iron-headed weapons, and handsome dlothing, with the poor people we had seen at Southampton Island ; the latter with their spear-heads, arrows, and even knives of chipped flint, without canoes, wood, or iron, and with their tents and clothes full of holes ; yet of mild manners, quiet in speech, and as grateful for kindness, as they were anxious to return it : while those now alongside, had perhaps scarcely a virtue left, owing to the roguery they had learnt from their annual visits to the Hudson's Bay ships. An air of saucy independence, a most clamorous L \.\\ asia.'"-::- fiBiEaT \vvjf> 7 Jh, iirJihn Bull. f' J ~^ - ->'? /'■iO '^ ..'■?->. \' < ''r,v''J/^ '->. '^4 ^ <^' -■i? CoTlJuror, -N ■^^7 'I .Y ••t^ ^c^,^^-^^^u7i?'-^ HiJKIKA-IE'CT 5-/^ ■■',\;' iviS -)/.»;■ .-IL'3)© -A Lrnwuljir C«j# LyonE-N EBgiiiiid ly E3»r^Piu in l'ii?'i:hr./ D/-<' IKM ?'\ Jrhr t^imy Tjml" •;./• • 3 mirnoti '"'I;' h '■ ■■■> Ik, I.I ESQUIMAUX. 129 demand for presents, and several attempts at theft, some of which were successful, were their leading characteristics. Yet I saw not why I should constitute myself the censor of these poor savages, and our harter was accordingly conducted in such a manner, as to enrich them very considerably; . . Nothing new was seen at this visit, if I ex- cept a most ingenious piece of carving from the grinder of a walrus; this was a very spirited little figure of a dog lying down and gnawing a bone; and although not much above an inch in length, the animaVs general expression was admirable. I should, however, mention that we also procured a few little ivory bears of the same description, and far better executed than any we had purchased before. One man brought ojBT two fresh sal- mon trout ; but no other provisions were seen. <. . At eleven A.M. we suddenly observed a very agitated ripple of tide setting towards us, and although the wind was light, and the sea as smooth as a mirror, it ran in such rapid eddies, as to throw up little white-topped waves. It separated the stream of ice which lay across the mouth of the channel between the islands, in an incredibly short space of time; but a light breeze enabled us to run 188't. Sept. I sn i 130 OCCURRENCES OFF 1884. through the slackest part of the eddy, and re- Sept, main in still water, while the ice was swept at the rate of at least three knots to the east- ward, thus entirely depriving us of an addition to our first cargo, of which the hoats were not yet cleared. .v.,^,, ..,.,. .. ♦?..,.. ,.. tv,.w.,rf,,,^« Good obsei'vations and meridian altitudes, with several angles, assured us of the precise situation of the islands, which was very satis- factory, as their position is incorrectly marked in the charts, i '*si ; ^^ Mr. Bell, master of the Camden, Hudson's Bay ship, had informed me at the Admiralty, that the Nottingham Island of Captain Parry was incorrectly laid down, and that this island was actually to the southward of Salisbury^ which I now found to be exactly as he had said ; but I have no doubt that the small portion of land which we mistook for Nottingham in the last voyage, is in fact one of Baffin's "Mill Islands" the position of which has hitherto been so imperfectly known, and it will therefore only now be requisite to change its name. Our cross bearings gave the south- em coast of Salisbury, so as to correspond most exactly with the northern part as laid down by Captain Parry, and the form and size of this island is therefore determined with the NOTTINGHAM ISLAND. 131 greatest certainty. We also at this time com- pleted the hearings from Cape Wolslenholm ; and the strait between it and the two islands, is about thirty-five miles in breadth. The natives left us at noon whi. we were occupied in clearing the boats of ice ; an opera- tion they did not quite comprehend, particu- larly after one of our men had seriously in- formed them, in their own language^, that we mtended eating it. Variable and light airs prevented my making so good an offing from the islands as I could have wished, particularly as the sky was very threatening, and a preci- pitous coast, with such a current as we had seen in the morning, were by no means agree- able neighbours. During the night, which was very dark and hazy, the light air which blew took no effect on our sails, owing to a heavy shoi*t swell, which suddenly arose without any apparent cause, and in which the ship, accord- ing to custom, pitched bows under, and lost all steerage way. This was much increased by headng, near midnight, the approach of the foaming tide [we had seen at the same hour in the forenoon ; and it now brought a most agi- tated surf with it, in which we continued to be whirled about for above four hours, the sea sounding all round us as if it beat against a K2 18S4. Sept. I i 11 m 18M. Sept. 132 PASSAGE DOWN long line of rocks. This, as we were quite ignorant as to where the wild eddy was carry^- ing us, gave me great anxiety, although we had no bottom with one hundred and fifty fa- thoms, until day-light of the 26th, by which time the sea had become smooth, and hot an eddy was to be seen. We now, by a distant bearing of Cape Wolstenholm, ascertained that we had been swept considerably to the south-eastward of Salisbury Island, although it was hidden from us by a fog. The eddy must therefore have come from the north-west- ward, between the islands, and have carried us until it joined that which branched round the east end of Salisbury ; and it must have been the junction of these two impetuous currents which caused the noise and turbulent c \ I have spoken of - i:-i, j^n ;. irn. :ff^oj • The forenoon of the 26th was foggy, but when the sky cleared, we obtained observa- tions for the magnetic errors of the compasses. In the evening a light breeze, from the south- ward, enabled us to steer a course for Charles Island ; but a short sea in which we were quite helpless, allowed of our making but little JHO- gress in the nieht. , , . , The morning of the 27th was fine, dry, and clear, with the wind from the southward. No i pro- IITJDSON'S STRAIT. 133 land was visible^ and the whole of the horizon was' fantastically fringed by low fog-banks. Three small bergs were seen on this day, and on one was a large flock of kittiwake gulls, several of which were shot by the officers. We had now ascertained by repeated and satis- factory observations of the sun and pole star, that all easterly errors of the compass had ceased, and that whatever corrections were re- quisite (and they were still very irregular) were yesterly*. .. i„j'^^ Tlie night was fine, and the wind still light. By a bearing of the pole star, the ship's head being west, the magnetic error was nine points westerly. The morning of the 28th was ex- tremely foggy, with calm and occasional flaws of southerly wind, until the evening, when a light breeze arose from north-west •{•. Before the breeze reached us, a noise as of a beach ,f>-:>~2 * See Appendix. .,;, ., ^ t It is worthy of remark that we had never before '^nown the southerly winds in this country to continue ^ above two or three days, and when the breeze was strong from that quarter, rarely above twelve hours ; yet this last southerly wind commenced on the 22nd, blew very hard, and raised a heavy sea for three days, and then fell ; , but without changing its direction, continued light up to this day, the eighth from which it first rose. 1884. Sept. I I ■f )r It y « ri :• i' li I ill ■III! 134 PASSAGE noWN 1894. surf was heard, and the fog being very heavy, Sept. the boats were lowered to tow our head off the supposed shore, but the sky was suddenly cleared by the breeze, and no land was seen in any direction. A narrow and agitated eddy was now observed to whirl quickly past the ship, and we then found that the noise had proceeded from its motion. Whence this could have come, so as to retain such velo- city at so great a distance from the land, I cannot conceive. The breeze increased slowly from the north-eastward, but as we were un- certain where we had drifted in the recent calm, I lay to for the night, and at daylight on the 29th made sail east to discover the land. At noon we obtained observations, and in th^ evening made the coast, which we neared suf- ficiently before d^rk, to discern to be the North Bluff, from whence at eight P.M. we took a departure, and steered south-east. Along the shore a great number of very large bergs m ere observed, apparently aground, as if driveh to the northern land by the recent southerly winds. ~ "' ■'■"'■■ ^: ■:■ ^;tuU>b't,' We sailed past several during the nighty which was exceedingly bright and fine, the stars shining with uncommon brilliancy, and the Aurora being unusually splendid. HUDSON'S STRAIT. 135 .u ?bt, the and The wind had fallen considerably at daylight, IS94. on the 30th, and land was seen indistinctly October. at about twenty-five miles to the northward. A thick fog continued with but little intermis- sion all day, and when it cleared in the even- ing, the wind settled from the south-east, and we obtained corrections for the compasses. In the course of the day, we had passed several bergs, and one small piece which we picked up yielded us a valuable ton of water. The breeze continued in our favour all the 1st of October, during which we had an indistinct view of the land. On the morning of the 2nd, land was seen distant and indistinctly to the north-east- ward. This must have been somewhere near Hatton's Headland ; but as it was of the ut- most importance that we should clear the strait while the breeze was favourable, I did not approach it. While running to the south- east with rather a heavy sea, we observed seve- ral flocks of rotges, which had been very numerous all the day, to fly directly against the steep sides of a wave, and bury themselves headlong in a moment ; a manner of diving I had never seen adopted by any other northern birds. In the evening we made and parsed the northernmost of the bold precipitouis group of Button*s Islands. The night was "1 I 136 REGAIN THE ATLANTIC. I' I 18)M>; fiiie; and we ran into the Atlantic with a fair October, and moderate breeze. Never have iliWitnesaed a happier set of conntenances than were (m^ onr deck this night. To have regained .once more an open ocean, in a ship in which we had so often been in danger, was of itself suf- ficient to rejoice at ; bnt when we reflected^ that in two particular instances we had been left without the slightest probability of again seeing our country ; that, when all hope had left us, we had been mercifully preserved, and that now, without the power of beating off a lee-shore, or an anchor to save us, we had run through nine hundred miles of a dangerous navigation, and arrived in safety at the ocean, ./ I may say that our sensations were indescrib- able. For the first time since the 28th of August, a period of five weeks, I enjoyed». - ■ r*-^^ - V .The weather was fine until the evening of the 4th, when a heavy gale set in from the southward, and a long Atlantic swell quickly arose. . There was not the slightest abatement of the gale for many days, and the horizon leas always obscured, so that we remained in aj^omnce as to whether any pack or berg was lying to leeward of us, and our suspense day iiand 'uigbt was very painful, for to see ice in f such weather, was only a prelude to being .-.wrecked upon it. ; t; '• »f»f '"* h'^^r -"rtt-' h vh : i">h-,r'' HosyOa the 12th a ship hove in sight and bore ^ odown to us,; she proved, on.hailii^g, to be the o i ;i 13S i^li HEAVY GALE. I 1S94. that she was very much in want of bread. I October, promised to lend some, but the sea and wind precluded all possibility of her lowering a boat, and she remained with us all night in hopes that the morning of the 13th would prove more favourable. There was, however, no improvement in the weather, and she veered a cask astern by a whale line, which wc succeeded in picking up. We filled this and two of our own with bread, and in one of them our letters for England were stowed. The Phoenix then hauled them on board, and parted from us on the opposite tack. Soon after dark, a large brig passed close under our stem, but the heavy gale prevented our mu- tual hails being heard, ^i.'^*^ ^' ^^tivr .anittt*/ ^ There was not the slightest diminution in the force or duration of the wind until the 16th, when having continued twelve days since its commencement from the southward, it slowly moderated, and nothing could be more welcome to us, for our hatches had been > battened down for twelve days, and yet the lower deck was entirely flooded during the whole time by the constant leakage from above. This was not all, for we had se- veral things washed away from the chains, i one boat stove, and the fore-topmast shewe4 COMMUNICATE WITH A WHALER. 139 itself badly sprang. With these tionbles, the i«t4. worst of all was the apprehension we enter- October, tained on two separate days, for the safety of the ship, as she took repeated and heavy Beas as often o\et the taffril as the bow. Onr people felt severely their close confinement below, owing to the unwholesome air whicli they were obliged to breathe, and our sick list in consequence contained daily from four to six names* * ■" '•"■' "■■■ »'■=- •■•'-.* v»» ^^ u »'v.».» ,.» ,».-•, »,if The wind continued variable all tlie 17th,' with a great swell from the southward. On the 18th, at night, it freshened from north- east, and we had a good run. ^■^•''^ in^^'j^y^iir On the morniiig of the 19th a strange ship,' which we had seen on the preceding evening, joinied us, and the master, Mr. Valentine, came on board : she was the Achilles, of Dun- dee, and had but two fish. Mr. Valentine informed nie tiiat fee hkd been exposed, for nearly a month past, to a continuance of the worst weather he had seen' in thirty-four years* experience, in these seas, and that the past season had been the most severe he bad ever known. Many ships had not killed a single fish, and the Phoenix, which' had' only fifteen, was about the fullest of any. The ice had been shifted from its usual position )*4 ■■■»} I nil I 4 %, ii"'l I 140 fLI PASSAGE ACROSS 1 k 1M4. by a continuance of north-east and easterly Octobtr. winds, and was all on the " West land/ ' "' ' ^ This fiiUy accounts for our having met with such great and unexpected impediments in Hudson's Strait, into which it must have poured as into a tunnel. He informed me also, that Captain Parry had heen seen some time in August, in ahout 73°, close heset, hut could give me no other information about him, except that he had heard all were well. From Mr. Valentine I learnt that the ship Dundee was in the greatest distress for pro- visions, from having, like the many other un- successful ships, remained out long beyond her time ; I, therefore, kept a good look out, in order to relieve her in case we met. By the Achilles I sent duplicate despatches. The Henrietta, of Leith, passed, and " broomed** two fish only. ,• ; .- - ,, I On the 21st we were surprised by seeing a small ice-berg so far out of the usual track at this late season. A ship being discovered to leeward, I made signals to her at night, hoping she might be the Dundee. She joined on t(^e morning of the 22d, and proved to be the North Pole, of Leith, with only seven fish. The mate came on board, and gave as sad an account of the past season as that which I THE ATLANTIC. 141 had received from Mr. Vulentinc. He, how- istt. ever, gave me a better report of Captain October. Parry, and that he was seen to the Westward of the ice at the end of July. The mate pro- mised to wait two hours for our letters ; but the moment he got on board, the North Pole went in stays, and stood off from us on the other tack ; we could not come up with her, and she soon ran us out of sight. ^ > - ' •, - A heavy e.n.e. gale blew all the 23d, and the sea, which washed over uU, stove in our hammock-boards on the bow and quarter, and flooded the lower deck. The weather fell to a dead calm on the 24th, and as the sea con- tinued as high as ever, we pitched bow and taffril under; but we now knew from expe- i^ience, that the seas we took in aft could not injure us, otherwise than by flooding the decks, for our ports were sufficient to dis- charge it. During this time two barks were seen to the eastward, apparently in company, and under low sail, and many of us were of ^ib|pitiion that they resembled the Hecla and Fury. At two P.M. a sudden and most vio- l^nt squall came down from the e.n.e., and brpught us in a moment under the trysails. . It continued undiminished until the evening of the 25th, when it moderated, and the sky ?!; i m 142 STRIKE SOUNDINGS. r 1^ cleared, but a very high sea continued running. Novemb. A stranger was seen in the north-east, but too distant for us to ascertain what she was. u i The wind rose from the north-west on the fi^thf and Vi^e made great progress, for it con- tinued until the 28th, when, after a short in- terval of calm, it shifted freshly to the south- west, from whence it continued unchanged. * On the 30th, with our wind as fair as we could wish, our damaged fore-topmost went in two places. We soon cleared the wreck, and had every sail set again. The south-west breeze continued imtil the 2d of November, when it changed to north-west, which was equally favourable. A strange brig, under English colours, parsed us. .. «; '■ *> > imj.. On the 4th the wind again veered ronnd to the south-west, and continued so all the 5th and gtth, when it came rather more to the westward. It continued from the west-south- west all the 7th, on the afternoon of which day we struck soundings in seventy fathoms, fine sand. The wind shifted feebly round to north-west, and on the 8th, at three P.M., we made the Land's End, n.^e. At five P.M. the Lizard lights were seen, north, twenty miles. The favourable breeze conti- nuing, we had an excellent run all night. ?•/ ENTER PORTSMOUTH HARBOUR. 143 And here let me, in justice to their respec- '^* tive makers*, give my testimony in favour of Noyemb. our chronometers, which made the land to a mile, after having undergone many most se- vere shocks, and much exposure, for above five months. When we struck so heavily on the 7 St of September, they were badly shaken, and in any rough weather their cots would frequently strike the beams. They had been carried in the pocket, and put in the boats in the hurry of preparing to quit the ship on the above day, and yet continued their rates with so small a variation that it does not deserve mention. •■•;^/;;; '»r- ;; r-ftUr ' <■".■ vr--. On the 9th with a strong west-south-west wind, we ran past the Start and Berry Head, and passing the Portland lights at night, hove to off St. Alban's Head until morning of the 10th ; when, making sail, we procured a pilot, and, at ten, passed the Needles. In our distressed state, without anchors, I deter- mined on running into Portsmouth Harbour, as the tide would serve until two P.M., and the wind was so fresh, that had we lost the flood, we could not have remained imder sail all night in safety at Spithead. Accordingly, * Messrs. Parkinson and Frodsham, Barwise, and Morris. m I vays in which this may be effected ; the first is by producing any two magnetic meridians, till they intersect each other, which intersection will, of course, be the common pole of the two places ; and the second is by means of the relation theoretically established between the dip and variation in any one given place, which latter, as being the most independent, is to be preferred when it can be had recourse to. ■ u ]4d APPENDIX. Such an example occurs in the journal on the 84th of August, in lat. 63** 26' 51" N., long. 80° 51' 25" W., when the variation was found to be 37° 30' W., and dip 86° SS*. The relation above alluded to between the dip, variation, and magnetic latitude, as first deduced from observa- tion by Biot, and afterwards by deductions from the laws of iron bodies by Mr. Barlow, is this, that in every part of the world the tangent of the dip of the needle is equal to double the tangent of the magnetic latitude of the place of observation. That is, if we conceive meridians to proceed from one magnetic pole of the earth to the other, and an equator to be described bisecting all those meridians, from which the magnetic latitudes are reckoned ; then the tan- gent of the dip is equal to double the tangent of the arc comprised between the magnetic equator and the place of observation ; consequently, when the dip is given, the mag- netic latitude and co-latitude become known, which latter is the distance of the place of observation from the mag- netic pole. Having thus the distance of the pole, and the variation of the needle showing the direction, as referred to the terrestrial meridian of the place of observation, the exact situation of the pole itself becomes a matter of easy computation. Thus in Fig. 1, if PP* represent the terres- trial poles, and w, w' the magnetic poles, EQ the terrestrial equator, and MQ the magnetic equator : then eZ will be the terrestrial latitude, and mZ the magnetic latitude of the place Z; and consequently nrZ its magnetic co-latitude, which becomes known by means of the law above-mentioned. Again, n-P will be the terrestrial co-latitude of the place of the magnetic pole, and the angle ttPZ will be the difference of longitude between the two meridians EP, eP, or the difference of longitude between the magnetic pole and the place of observation. APPENDIX. 149 , In the present instance the observed dip is 86° 32' ; now nat. tan. 86° 3^ is 16.507456, therefore 4 tan. 86° 52' = 8.853728 = tan. 83° 6' = arc mZ, or magnetic latitude of Seahorse Point ; and, consequently, wZ, or .the co-latitude, is 6° 54' ; which is the distance of the place of observation, measured on the arc of a great circle, from the magnetic pole. Now, then, in the spherical triangle wPZ there are given, the arc wZ = 6° 54', the magnetic co-latitude ; the arc PZ = 26° 33', (rejecting the seconds,) the terrestrial co-latitude, and the angle wZP, = 37° 30', the variation ; to find the angle wPZ, or the difference of longitude be- tween the two meridians, and irP, the co-latitude of the magnetic pole. The actual solution of this problem gives the angle wPZ = 11° 32', the difference of longitude, which added to the longitude of the place 80° 51', gives 92°32'W., for the longitude of the magnetic pole reckoned from London ; and the arc wP = 21° 27', which deducted from 90° leaves 68° 33' for the latitude of the pole. It is unfortunate that no other opportunity occurred during the voyage of making a similar shore observation ; but it is, at the same time, highly satisfactory, that the resulting place of the pole, as deduced above, agrees within certain narrow limits with the places of the same as obtained from the observations made in the several voyages of Captains Rosp and Parry, and with those made by Captain Franklin in liis over-land journey. These all give for the place of the pole a latitud« not differing greatly from 70°, and a longitude a little more or less than 100° ; but still there is a certain discrepancy, which is more and more obvious as the latitude diminishes, and which shows that the more northerly ard westerly the place of observation is, the greater is the deduced western 3 150 mi APPENDIX. longitude of the pole, a result which seems to obtain equally, whether the variation is east or west, and which will, there is little doubt, ultimately furnish one of the best tests we can have for confirming the true theory of terrestrial mag- netic action, if we should ev^r arrive at it, of which rea* sonable hopes may be entertained, seeing the great ad* vances that have been made, within a few years, to- Avards reducing magnetic phenomena to the dominion of analysis, and towards which the observations made in our several northern voyages have mainly contributed. ' In order to show the degree of approximation furnished by the diflferent observations alluded to above, we have given the following table of the several computed results. Terrestrial liatltude Computed place Place of ObMTTaUou. Date and longitude. Dtp. Variation. of Magnetic Pole. N'aiM of Okaorrer. Latitude. Longitude. • Davis' Strait 1820 6°. 00 N. §1.60 W. 8I43 N. eo.aiw. B > 67.37 94.% Panty Recent'* lokt DittQ 72.45 N. 89.41 W. 38.26 N. 118.16 W. 71.10 98.16 Ditto Baffin's Bay, on ice Ditto 73.00 N. 61.30 W. 84.30 N. 82. 2 W. 71.13 97.3 Ditto Possesiion Bay Ditto 73.31 N. 77-22 W. 86. 4 N. 108.46 W. 69.40 99.10 DiUo Melville Island Ditto 74.47 N. 1 10.48 W. 88.43 N. 127.47 E. 73.12 102.46 Ditto . -„ ,^ .. , C - -T 56.41 N. 109.51 W. 85. 7..N. 25. 2E. 65.11 100.5 FranliUii . {■.. .','■ ..!.'.,;■ .^ 58.42 N. 11 1.18 W. 85.23 N. 22.49 E. 64.47 102.14 Ditto 62.17 N. 114. 9W. 86.38 N. 33.36 E. 67.35 104.25 Ditto Different Stations in Ifortli America.) .820 and 1822 64.15 N. 67.1 N. 113. 2W. 116.27 W. 87.20 N 87.31 N. 36.54 E. 44.11 E. 68.17 70.17 104.24 106.21 Ditto Ditto . i*i.iti '•i""*'*?'" 67.47 N. 115..36W. 88. 5 N. 46.25 £. 69.51 107.31 Ditto .. U'i. . J,' - - • X '.-: 67.19 N. 109.44 W. 88.58 N. 41.43 E. 68.68 105.54 Ditto 68.18 N. 109.25 W. 89.31 N. 41.15 E. 68.50 107.33 Ditto Hudson's Bay 1824 53.27 N. 80.51 W. 86.32 N. 37.30 W. 68.33 02.23 Lyon 1 l,*^^^'''}' ^:>" %V -H*^% ?--Vv-^f.'5h' i\i ^^f ti ^iikK jiil; iii .t-»J-liS APPENDIX. m i\ Let us next inquire to what extent the directire intensity of the compass ought to be reduced in consequence of the increase of the dip, and whether this decrease is sufficient to account for the powerless state of the needles during the passage of the vessel across Hudson's Bay. The theory of magnetism, to which we have already al- luded, (See BarlMo's Essays on Magnetic Attraction^ Art* 306, second edition,) leads to this result, that the intensity of direction of a horizontal needle, is always proportionata to the co-sine of the magnetic latitude of the place, or to the sine of its distance from the magnetic pole ; or, as re- ferred to the dip, the horizontal intensity varies inversely, as >^ (3 + sec.'^), ^ being the dip. That is, the intensity at Seahorse Point was to the same at Green Hythe, as V (3 + sec:'70) : V (3 + sec." 86° 38), that is,^ as 1 to 5 nearly. It is impossible to investigate this law of the decreasing magnetic intensity of the horizontal needle, without em- ploying abstruse mathematical processes, which might em* barrass the general reader; but a simple view may be taken of the subject, wliich will assist him in comprehend- ing that a very considerable reduction must take place as the dip increases. For example, let ns (Fig. 2,) represent a horizontal needle in London. It will be perceived that the force which draws it into its magnetic direction is exerted in the line of the dip, vix.y in the line Pn, forming an angle of 70*^ with the horizon ; and, therefore, by the most simple laws of mechanics, it follows that this force being resolved into the two forces NP, Nn, the latter is the only part of the force which is effective in giving it direc- tion : that is, the horizontal intensity is to the direct intensity in the line of the dip, as Nn to P/i, or as co-sine 70° to ra* ditts. In the same way, in the second part of the figure^ \'\ 152 Ai»nENnix. which represents' the needle at Seahorse Point, the hori- zontal directive intensity will he to the direct intensity as Nn" to Pn", or as co-sine 86** 38' to radius, if, thereibre, the direct intensity were the sames in both CAies, the hori- zontal intensities would be to each other as co-sine of TO*' to the co-sine of 86^ 38'. The intensities, however, arc not quite the same, but vary inversely, as V (4— 3 sin. *j), and which being properly introduced, gives the law above- stated; namely, that the horizontal intensity in the two places are as V (3+8ec."70°): V(3+8ec."86° 32'), or as 1 to 5, a reduced force, which is amply sufficient to account for the general sluggishness of the needles as recorded in the journal. »>" But it appears that the needles were more inactive in one position of the vessel than in another ; let us then examine whether this is a result which is consistent with our general theory. On this point it must be remembered, that the upper parts of all iron bodies, in places of great dip, possess the same species of magnetism as the poleof the earth, towards which the dip is made. The needle on shipboard, therefore, is under the compound influence of the earth and of the iron of the vessel, and the compass being farther aft than the great hody of the iron, and above it, will have its north end drawn towards the vessel's head. When, therefore, the head is to the southward, the magnetism of the ship will draw the north end to the southward, while the magnetism of the earth will draw it to the north ; so that in this position of the ship, the two forces counteracting each other will de- stroy the effect of either, at least when they are equal* and in all eases the directive power of the needle vnll be only that due to the difference of the two forces. Let us, thent examine how niijeurly^he tnagnetic power of the earth AlfP&NDIX. 153 and that of tfa« »hip approximated towards equality in this part at the Toyage of the Griper, vti^rnstrtt ')7ff>Mtb ialno^ We are fortunately furnished with the requisite data for this iuvestigatioin, by the experiments on the local attraction of the vessel at Green Hythe^ previous to the voyage* for from these it aT)pears that the attraction of the vessel was snch, (rejec-ting small fractions,) as to produce a deflection of the needle, with the ship's head at east or west, of about 8®. That is, the two forces, namely, that of the earth and ship, when at right angles to each other, were so related that their common resultant formed with one of tho»e forcet) an angle of 8°, and with the other an angle of 82° ; con- sequently, these two forces were to each other as sine of 8° to sine of 82°, or as radius to tan. 82°, or as 1 to 7 nearly ; that is, the magnetic action of the Griper was to that of the earth before the vessel left the Thames as 1 to 7. But at Seahorse Point we have seen that the earth's mag> netism was less effective on the horizontal needles than in the Thames, in the ratio of 1 to 6 ; so that calling the I'powerH of the earth 7 in the latter place, it was only 1'4 r at the former. But besides this reduction in the effective 'powers of the earth's magnetism, it is to be remembered ) that the magnetism of the vessel will be increased in the I ratio of V (4-3 sin.' 86° 32') to V (4- 3 sin.' 70°) ♦, or in >l^out the ratio of 100 to 1 16, so that the ratio of the mag- v^ctic powers of the iron of the vessel and of the earth» r> I were at this station to each other as 1 x 116 to 100 x 1.4 : )rj0V as 116 to 140, or as 1 to 1.19, nearly, whereas at the > commencement of the voyage they were to each other as ill to 7. ocj i Hence it appears that the power of the ship's magnetism ,3tf S^J < ' ■ ...■■. .IT IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-S) ^/ ^ >. ^ ^^^^ 1.0 l^|2& 125 US ^^ ^^^ Hi lit u ■*0 Hioiographic ^Sciences CoipQration ¥!^ V ^^ M •^ \ :\ 23 WIST MAIN STMIT WltSTIR,N.Y. U5M (7I6)S72-4S03 ,« I'm! ;.■ in. 154 APrENDIX. at Soa-hone Point, was cmly a very little less than that of the earth ; and consequently when these forces were opposed to each other, as was the case with the ship's head south, the remaining intensity upon the needle, viz., .1ft, was by no means sufficient to give it any direction, and hence its power- less state with the ship's head towards this quarter. But with the ship's head to the north, the magnetism of tha earth and that of the vessel conspired together, and tha needle was rendered active by their joint influence, although this activity was obviously useless for the purpose of navi* gation. These deductions will perhaps be rendered more intelli<« gible to some readers by means of the diagram (Fig. 3.) which represents the vessel swung round to the four prin« cipal quarters. North, South, East, and West, the letter n in the vessel indicating the point in the same which attracts the north end of the needle. Now, with the vessel's head east, at Green Hithe, the needle was drawn by the earth to* wards N', and by the ship towards n' ; and the angle which the needle assumed having been S° from o n\ 3ho\vs that the power emanating from N' was to that proceeding from n' as ab to 6c, or as sin. 88° to sin. 8°, or, as we have seen, as 7 to I. But in Hudson's Bay tlie ratio of these two forces was, in consequence of the increase of the one and the decrease of the other, reduced to that of 1*19 to 1 : that is, nearly to equality, and consequently now, with the ship's head to the true magnetic east or west, the needle ought to have stood nearly north-east and north-west; but incoming round to the southward, the action of the ship counteracting more and more the action of the earth, as it became more directly opposed to it, the needle would become more and more in- active, and incapable of taking up any decided line of direc- tion. With the head towards the north the ship and earth APPENDIX. 15S w«Nild conipire t(^ether to give activity to the needle, w above -stated. Now, when the correcting plate was applied, the needle was then inactive, to whatever point the ship's head was directed, at least after the dip exceeded S6°A-, although it had done all that was required of it before. The reason of this is also sufficiently obvious, for the plate counteracting the magnetic power of the vessel, the directive intensity of the needle in all positions was the same, and jthis, as we have seen, was alone insufficient to give it direction. In the preceding voyage of the Griper, under the command of Captain Clavering, the greatest observed dip was 81o^, and the plate was effective throughout. In the present case it was found efficient till the dip amounted to 86**^, but thia appears to be its limit, for beyond this the intensity of di- rection was so small as to be incompetent to overpower the friction on the point. It will be observed that all the above inferences are drawn from the single shore observation at Sea-horse Point, but as from these it appears the magnetic pole was then to the south-west, and distant less than 7°; and as the vessel afterwards continued to advance nearly S" in a line bearing directly towards it, there can be no doubt the dip continued to increase, and that at the most northern and western part of the voyage the dip was at least 87^°, while the variation, if our preceding determinations are to be relied on, was re« duced to almost nothing. Hence the reason, in (the first place, of all the observed irregularities getting greater aa the latitude increased ; and secondly, in consequence of a probable decrease of at least three points westerly variation, these irregularities would appear more easterly than before, for as there was no means of estimating directions except by the true meridianst and tba variation having been more than 1! 156 APPENDIX. three points westerly at Sea-horse Point, all westerly devia- tions would appear to be three points more than they actu- ally were, and all easterly deviations three points less ; but when in the more northern parts of the voyage, as the needle's direction then nearly agreed vrith the true meridian, the errors on both sides would be nearly equal to each other, and consequently the easterly errors would appear to in- crease, and the westerly to diminish, as was found to be the case. Having thus taken a general view of the phenomena, which we ought d priori to have expected the needle to pre- sent, let us take the several remarks as noted in the Journal, and see how far they may be individually explained upon the principle above established. (a) (b) (c) These remarks have been sufficiently illus- trated, by showing the great reduction of the directive in- tensity. (d) This remark was made by Captain Franklin, but it is ohviously the necessary consequence of a change of position in an east and west line so near to the magnetic pole. (e) It has been already shewn that, with the ship's head to the southward, the magnetism of the earth and ship were opposed to each other, and having been also nearly equal, the compass would necessarily be inactive. With the ship's head north, the needle was under the compound influence of the ship and earth, and was therefore more active, although not more useful. Gilbert's compass having been freed from the magnetic action of the vessel, and that of the earth having been insufficient to give it direction, it would neces- sarily stand in any position. ' ^" ' ^■' "" ' (f) This sudden change in the larboard compass was most likely the effect of accident ; with so little directive force, the needle is of course easily displaced. The error \(ith the APPENDIX. 157 ship's liead to the west is consistent with the preceding il- lustration, except that it appears to be rather too strong. The inactivity of the compasses with the head to the south has been explained above. The tendency of the north end of the needle to follow the ship's head in consequence of its great attraction, sufficiently explains the cause of the errors noted in the latter part of this remark. , , . (jf) Here the compasses remained stationary till, by the head of the vessel opening more to the eastward, they yielded suddenly to the power of its attraction. (A) The remark here, of the error increasing to tlie east or west, as the vessel's head was towards either of these quarters, is quite consistent with the preceding illustrations, which show that the north end of the needle had constantly a tendency to follow the head, although the magnetism of the earth had, of course, its effect in keeping the north point of the card between the ship's head and the north. The inactivity in the other semicircle has been alreadv explained. (i) This remark requires no particular explanation, being similar to all the preceding. (k) It has been rendered probable by our preceding expla- nations, that the dip of the needle at tliis time was nearly 88**, and consequently the magnetism of the earth reduced from what it wa^j at Sea-horse Point, in the ratio of cos. 86^ : COS. 87^, or cos. 88° ; that is, in the ratio of 2 to 3. At this time, therefore, the magnetic power of the ship pro- bably exceeded that of the earth, and hence the changes I'e- marked in the deviation of the needle. Moreover the natural westerly errors, arising from the actual variations, had now nearly diminished to nothing, which would cause an appa- rent increase in the easterly errors. ^ n < (/) There can be no doubt of these phenomena being due to the electro-magnetic effect of the Aurora Borealis. In I m APPENDIX. the Pkit. Tram, for 1898 U w shown that, by reducing the directive power of the needle by means of artificial magnets, the daily variation may be increased from about IS* to seve- ral degrees, and the effect which was in this case only pro^ duced artifically, is, with such considerable dips, produced naturally, as has been already sufficiently explained. It will of course be seen that, notwithstanding the incapability of the needle to take up a determined direction, its actual magnetic strength was not diminished, and it was conse- quently liable to be disturbed from any external cause act- ing upon it. The recent science of electro-magnetism proves the great disturbing power of electric currents ; and Mr. Dalton, many years back, observed the influence of the Aurora upon a magnetic needle, even in these latitudes, where its directive power is considerable. It is therefore by no means astonishing that, in latituues where the Auroras are stronger, and the directive power of the needle so much less, than in England, the disturbance of the needle from this cause should be so perceptible. The remark, that these phenomena and motions in the needle were not observed till a certain hour in the evening, although the sun had been set some hours, may be ultimately of importance in tracing out the conneuon of these phenomena with each other, bu- at present it appears to be inexplicable. The change of latitud ?, nearly 8", is amply sufficient to account for the diminished error here noticed. ' ' ^ (m) It is obvious that, if the power of the vessel on the needle were equal to that of the earth, in the most northern part of the voyage, which has been shewn to be probable, and the variation having been nearly nothing at the same time, it would follow of course that, with the ship's head at east, the compass would show n.b., as here stated ; but this error would diminish on the return to the souths AP1>EN01X. 159 ward ; at the same time it is difficult to account for n.b. by compass being n.b. true, as appears to have been the case on the lUth, because the longitude being still very nearly the same, there is no reason to apprehend an increase of actual westerly variation. i , \ (n) The still farther advance to the southwartl, and the consequent diminution of dip and increase in the terrestrial intensity, is sufficiently seen in these observations, althought with the ship's head to the southward, the needle is still weak and indeterminate in its directive quality. (o) (p) The vessel being now returning towards the station where the variation had been found to be 37 Jo w.. but to the eastward of it there can be little doubt that the varia- tion was from the S3d to the 85th, about 3^ or 4 points west ; taking the least, the local attraction on the 23d would be 3^ points, with the head at east by compass, and 8^ points on the 84th, with the head at n.£. ; about 33*> at N.E.b.E., and 36* at w.b.N. on the 85th. That is, by sub- tracting 7° 27" from the variation in the one case, and in the other subtracting the variation from 75° 49' w., which results are exactly such as we should have naturally antici* cipated. (a) The irregularities in these deviations show that, with the ship's head to the southward, the compass had not yet recovered its proper action. (r) These results indicate very clearly a variation of 4 points westerly, and a local attraction of 8 points at east and west. (s) The mean of the two variations at east and west seems to indicate here a westerly variation, amounting to 5^ points, and a local attraction of about one point and a half; that is, about double the attraction in England : both of which indications are supported by a high degree of probability. /m/TiM/ iTrat r**~ '- APPENDIX. 1 Day. TinMor Ob- Mrvalioa. . UUtadc. Longilude. SUp'i HMd ky MniMlIc Buf IngorCclMU*! Hotly. 1 Auf. 8 O « /« Noon. « H ■ ' 68 18 48 D.R. « w 69 83 18 D.R. -^'-• — O * M 15 Noon. 03 9 S\ M,A. 71 59 39 0. > 88 Night. Noon. 62 44 86 D. R. Noon. 78 55 44 c. North Pole • N-N.B.by Gilbert. 84 Noon. 63 86 51 D.R. 80 51 86 c - f -V on shore 9.97 sow- I 23 11 90 p.m. Noon. 68 4S 33 M.A. Noon. 81 41 13 (1. North Pole « Ld. ^N.N.B. 8d. ^ s.iw. Walter.. . North. 1 V 1.1 9iiii«»4l *«iV |Mllc fi««n I of Ccl«tU*l Body. Pole « N>N.B.by Gilbert. 87 90 Mr. Pole« i. ^ N.JW. WftUttlv.. Nortb. APPENDIX. 101 [TrHB«arin|of lb« J^~^ Amonnt of Mig> ■vnv Biiur* BEMARKS. The " inagnctic error" nfuiir coinpMies now became very ifrent an). " i -SL§^e ^its»!.. TT 1 ■1 162 APPENDIX. Day. Time or Ob- ■ervallun. LitiiuOi'. LongliuiU. « . . ( o > » « » * • ,B 1 - o Mi Aug. SO Noon 62 14 3S Noon 84 29 64 North 'si * .a §S5 M.A. e. West. sfnrat' ■he - S ;, 1 i • 1 ^ 1 ^;- r •. • n T : • - 31 4 A.M. Noon Noon Nortli Pole * } • 68 89 00 85 52 88 , ■ N.B.b.W. 1 ■ ' ' ' ' M.A. ■ • \4 0. .14' ■ • ' "^ ' * ' - f ■ — - ■ • ■ t lag or Celnttal -4 '9 . I I Pole « N.B.b.N. I •- APPENDIX. 163 r TrM Bearing of tl CclMtlal Budy. Amoanl of M*g' iiclU Error. RRMARKit. North In the furrnoun watch uiir larbuaid ^, which had uifrccd with the twi> oth«ra in ithcwing magnetic error aa noted in the co- lumn, luddcnly pointed b.n.r. and nu tap- pings or motion would keep it to any other point for two4»r three minutCH, after which it as suddenly recovered its agreement with the others, and continued quite correct. Wenow,rrom repeated observations! ascer- tained that, with the head between n.w. and west, the magnetic error amounted to 8 pts. w., while, with the head due sooth, the compasses would not remain quiet, or assumed at times each a direction of its own, yet if shaken from this they never re- turned to the same position. Heaving to, on this night, I observed that, on changing the ship's head from n. (^), or N.w.b.N. (true), and rounding to port, all the compasses changed inversely to btar- BOARU, as N.b.K., NB., to B.b.N.,at wliich latter point the ship's head remained all night, although the wind, by an observa- tion of the Pole *, was unchanged from %.\v. ; thus shewing, as her head was in fact w.N.\r., a magnetic error increasing gradually as she came round from n. ^ (/.) 3w. At four A.M. on the 31 st I kept away to starboard, and the couipasscs remained quite steady until we had fallen oif about four points, when all flew round at the same moment ; and when by the Pole « our head was N.w.b.N., all again pointed north, mos* correctly, as they had done before {g). M 2 I I! 164 APPENPIX. U4y. Sept. TlmiurOk- Mrvallon. LmUiUv. Lanfllailt. ■up I nfta ojf 1^^ ^f c«l»tU-il I Boiljr. ♦ o « ^« NiMin Nuuii 63 15 44 Si) 3 SO Ma A« C. North H.HAV, N.W. Wc«t N.N.R. N.K. Eait o ?1« n •!k Noon 03 38 00 M.A. Noon 88 25 45 V. North A.M. 9.51 Noon U 15 00 M.A. Noon 87 43 36 c. N.b.R. Pole » North I i:.i, I lU ,i'ini< !i^L j^lig H «'^ 11 Night. 65. SO jQO 86 14 30 N.R.b.N. N.b.W. Pole# East. Mainrllc Rrar. Ing or CclMiUI Body. o ^* I* I' I •5 I* >. n Pole * North APPEMlfX. usrt o Pole* East. Tm* B«arlat ul tb« | AniMtiil nf Mag. C«l«iiUI Hody. ; iiHte Krror. RBMARKR. in N.b.\V. i« North i« N.W. it WcHt itt South !• Jt.E. in ■.«. «» South 1*0 lull 1 w. 4 w. 8 w. 4 w. 8 w. £ K. 8 r. 8 r. Ilcfweeii west nmi Routh. iitxl lietwren ciist Hiid Hoiith. no rriultt could bo ulttain* cd, lor the rompMiei wotild nevrr remain stationary with the iihip'H hrad in thcM direction*. From the arconiiianyinpt oli< •crvations it may he »een that the maifnc- tic error increaiea proKres»ively, to the eatt itV//ifAf of north, but weiterly it' to itH/i>/) ; and at the pfreatent CMtubliihed error it eiffht |>ointH at ca«t and west, these points may he considered the maxima. IVhy the other half of the compass U powerless ad« raits of most intorestingf speculation! (A). Nonli At twilight on the 7th I went on deck to keep the ship her course, and found her head on the starboard tack N.w.b.x. Her course being north (true), 1 would not trust to the ^ and keep n close luflf, but wore, and, having by ^ shifted 8f points, came on the larboard tack to north ^ at which was no error (1). 8. 43 50 15 1 9 45 B. 1 t ■1 North. North. 8 W. N.B. Three days since, the magnetic error was five points on this bearing. N.B. Three days since, on this bearing there was no error, (k) I 166 ' A1*PEND1X. I i Day. .Time of Ob- lerratlon. Latitude. Longitude. Ship'i Hmd by MagMtic B«af • iits or Cel«atial Object. Sept. 1 .r « « 1. .; O ' It i I 1 1 ; • - ■ • ■ ( • .■ . . • ■ IS P.M. 2.30 63 18 00 87 12 13 E.bN. S.b.B. ■ ■-. • ^ • / ■ 1 4 .■ ■ r- ■ ^ 7 , . .. . ■".■■ '• '"i'«< , -,.,.• r.f i . . ■• .. ,; .■ , ?■" ti -t :. ■ • f •.,,, '••> n. If , i ' .1 il(t' r.if 1 M'"!"!'. ' ■IjlU . ,.■ . I'-J-I Jrt ' |.:'ui'i"'il' •»!■ / ./* ■,;■' ■ ' . .•.. .,!'■. t f 1 l.lli. 111.!,!' Tri Cel IMIii^a.' M«fiMtie B«av. ills or CelwtUl Object. S.b.B. APPENDIX. li^ Trn* Bearing of CelenUI Object. Amoant of M.fg- netic Error. REMARKS. s.w.is. 4|e At ten P.M. I hove to in consequence of the compasses bcoominif greatly agi- tated. This had frequently been observed on other nights between the hours of nine and eleven, and had always been the cause of great anxiety to me, while en- deavouring to steer a course after dark. It is well worthy of consideration whether this agitation of the compasses is at all to be attributed to the absence of the sun, or is in any way occasioned by the presence of the Aurora ; which pheno- menon was rarely seen earlier than nine P.M. ; and its greatest brilliancy was ge- nerally at about ten, although the sun had then been set some hours. .... . On one occasion, during the prevalence of an unusually brilliant Aurora, at ten P.M., Mr. Kendall observed that the lar- board binnacle compass would not remain steady at any point, while the starboard one by a bearing of the Pole « had de- creased its accustomed error two points, but on the following morning by a bear- ing of the sun, it was found to have re- assumcd them. N.B. Up to this period the error on this bearing had been eight points E. (A.) ^ As our recent observations had given a magnetic error of four points on a north- east course, I expected on this morning that we were steering east (true,) but a momentary glimpse of the sun's bearing at eight A.M., convinced me that north- n T 1 16^ APPEJiDHtt. Day. Time of Ob' servation. LMimde. Longitude. SWp'aUcadby Magnetic Bear> (Dfof CclcitUI Object. Trn Cell I Sept. 8 A.M. O t II / // N.B. QS.B.ihB. i 19 11 15 620000 87 00 00 East 8.B,b.a. ' ! ■ - ' ^ ■ - . 1 1 Sept. East. p. « N.N.W. 1 21 10 P.M. 61 24 8 86 44 00 E.N.E. If N«N»lVw f ^ ' , .A ■ , . ■ * ■ . ' • • 1 -,= _••. r / • • ;■ w n.. ,'• J ■ t ■ ! '■'■'. t < 1 ' : I 1 ♦ ■ Pole* j At daim. N.B. N.W.W. . i ■■ . 28 But having run N.E. 20 miles, the erro r, even in tlMfc distal Noon. 60 50 7 86 00 7 N.B.b.E. OSoath. i ' i ■ • :■ ' - i 1 !'.•'■' ■ t f • • - ■ -,! >■■ : '- ■". ■ '• ' * '■ , . jf' yi •r.v. fi • -■','.'".'• >.■.'■■ •• . , \[ •■■'t :■.• i i- i ' I Bjr «elve^dr<^ obsei 1 1 23 62 24 3S 82 24 30 East. G and ^ Poh t 1 tiirfj fcni'o'l -yt! ■ ish ;»iffj t«!0 ff^iD'nJT [24 ■■iif><['^V' 63 1 7 78 36 N.E. 1 \ •:'.'.'• I'ifUl'Jt t l:)/.. 1 n ; i 1 1 ' APPE^rDlx. 169 Magnetic Bear- IoK«r CcUilUl "^Object. 08.B.ihB. 8.Bib4l. P. « N.N.W. 19 NtN«w» Pole* r, evenintlMl^ South. By several ^ and 'I Trne Bearing of CeleiUil Object. SiB.lKlt. North. North. distance, became Soutb. Amoant of Mag- netic £rror. RBMARKS. 2 B. B. obsenmliont of Pole*. 2 B. as below. 1 w. vast ^, was in fact north-east (true,) and I sbortened sail at nine A.M., absolutely from not knowing how to steer. As a farther proof of the decrease in the mag- netic errors, sec observation at 11 h. 15 m. east^, having' recently shewn eight points error, (m.) By the sun on this day it was observed, that with our head east, B.b.s., or b.s.b., two, or at most three, points correction to the right or cast, which for three days past we had been accustomed to allow, was quite sufficient ; but if the ship fell off to the southward, say b.s.b., (true,) the compasses all ran round, and shewed her head s.w., or even west ; a proof, when considered with other observations, that with the head even one point to the right or left of the true south, the com- passes changed their errors from easterly to westerly, and wicc versA. Thus, by our observations, s.e. <^ and s.w. ^ give south, (true,) applying a certain deviation to the right for the first, and exactly the same proportion to ihe left for the second, (n). «>. *S 4i- .'.in K: So I Throughout this day we found that, with our bead N.B., the compasses began to recover themselves, (o.) '":) no APPENDIX. Day. Time of Qk- fcrvalion- LMttade. LongUode. SMp^ HmiI ky MugnMie Bear- ingofCelwlial Object. 25 8 ao 48 10 40 48 O • II 63 18 81 Q » H 77 13 23 N.R.b.B. W.b.N. R. 82 39 B. 8. 56 15 \v. 86 Noon. Sunset. 63 00 00 77 00 00 S.8.V. Weat. O 8.WA».W. North. 87 9 55 a.m. Nook. 10 P.M. 63 84 40 73 49 57 B.b.6. East. N.W.b.N.N, 8. 88 7 E. s.b.w.Jw. Pole « B.b.8. 30 Noon. 68 6 3 69 85 45 Eaat. West. 8.8. W. 8.B. O W.8.W 8.W. Oct. 1 Nooa. 17 ^— -— 61 53 31 68 00 00 S*S*n« 8.W. 61 15 52 i'«i'«.W. North. g. S8 7 B. Pole « B.b.s. O W.8.W 8.W. 8.M'. I OB «> CO B I w ag .a 09 bn .5 ^ * is I o x> o AP]>cNinx. 171 Trot Bearing of Celetlial Otjcct. 8. 80 57 SO^B. 8. 19 33 45 B. South. M'.b.s. 8.34 18 30 B. South. > SoaUi. South. Minimum. Maximum. AHMHM or Ma^ nerie Error. 7 27 w. 76 49 w. 5 w. 9 w. 6 5 SO w. H w. 9 w. 8 w. 6 w. 6 w. 4 w. 4 w. 4J w. 4 w. 3 w. 4 w. 5 w. 6 w. 7 w. R&MAKKS. Abreast of Nottingham and Snllgburj Islands, (p.) We now found by repeated observa- tions, that all easterly errors- had ceased, and that whatever correction for the compasses (which were still very irrefn- lar) was requisite, was to the west- ward. (9.) These observations were made while wearing, (r) j .< ( Mr. Valentine, master of the Achilles, whaler, with whom I communicated in Davis* Strait, informed me that he had been thirty-four voyages to this country, and that he knew it to be a general com- plaint of the masters of ships who were accustomed to fish in " the south-west," (that part of Davis's Strait near Reso- ! I I • « 172 APPENDIX. < j D.y. Time or Ob- Mrvalion. LiUinde. Longltade. BMp't Held by MhmUc Bear- log or GekiliM Object. Tr Ce .U.. .h )Up.i V, « « O , « ,l.tf!TlS :. oft .: > •,T(ri Ln •»' <1> '■''•;, . i> i- J ■ \ U\ ii.J.1 .i.:«L ..«-i;.>j. U. • J J., li, Oct. * ■ .' ' ■ 17 I 4 \ : -..-■• ' ly\ •■ . J !>•'»■, •! ;■" •' ii — I Pole ♦. 80 Night. 59 21 0) 58 5 00 South. N.B. • : - • •■ '■ ". Pole*. ; ■ ■ 8»S«B* N.E.b.y. ' 21 Night. 57 47 21 49 8 45 W.8.W. B.N.B. J J © 22 Noon. 57 20 10 48 15 50 B.S.E. s.i.w. J .•■■■ I- |: ... * - . ; ^'_. ^ '' i ■ .. . ' ♦' r.. ..- .. . .; 1 ' (.,-w^.^,.,.„ ,-r, „^ii.,-f±^% V' 5*^.^'.. . .,..,, ., B— *.tv»(i- ■'r^^■^■(™.'^- ■>.'- . 1 APPENDIX. 173 • MiffiNtle Bear- lag or €«tMUU Object. Trne B«arUif of CeletUal Objtct. Auoant of Mag- nelic Error. ■ I KEMARK8. -»"\ | i> i f 1 I i 1 i I 1 i liition Island,) that their latitude ob< served, while runninK tu the westward, was always considerably to the southward of the latitude by account, but that he had for many years allowed six points, with the ship's head west, and found his reckoning generally correct. This is a confirmation of our obser- vations here, (Davis' Strait,) and com- bines to account for the way in which we made the land on our outward pas- sage, so that we were not affected by current alone, as we at first were inclined to suppose. > Pole ♦. N.B. » 1 -• i North. 4 w. Pole #. N.E.b.N. B.N.B. . • ^«^th. 3 w. 6 w. ...!.' s.s.w. i ^outh. 2 w. ^^ . •. . ...■.' ' t.. ■ • r • 1 It I f i, ^>» A .?w>*lT»n^ ■•' . '^- 1 ■.■' .■SV4- -.t; . .' t, . yr,M>': ^r 56 I* .V\. ^f .s. to>\ » .tS^^M^^V* .*** 51 ( / 1 -■t*,- .-.' ft '., . .-■'V. jf! • - T— .'i ■"^^^^T-r^-r ^^ It \ I i" ^ ' - -V" tV-r.--^-,*, ^ff_^ w«[j&'-- Fi^ z N,-^ t • • ABSTKACT t . 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CO CO CO CO CO (0 CO H « 5 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • »H ■< ^ ^ • • 5 « o 1 ■* o o* c* r- CO A ^N o » • • ' • oo • • • o CO «o W3 0» f-i ' * •a «5 o u w O u» F-4 t- o ■< CO O Tf 04 T»< e« »i o • • • • • I^ • • • (0 s „a ^-4 2 0) »» »- • • S CO CO CO to w w w i§* 00 2 o o CJ 00 o n X 00 U) 00 oo 04 o CO 00 00 ai ^H w eo »- (N oo 1— < «o »» F^ «o OO 00 CO ■^ ^m f"H ■"• ! • 00 • » 09 CO St" o as If • k5 • o • o (4 • 00 • H o 00 • 09 • H 09 u 04 »o • H o» o • OS H o to • CO 00 • 09 i t- 00 at o 1— ( 0« 00 '* >0 CO »- 00 0» o ^^ c>« CO 04 04 H *"* ^^ (N w 04 1 6 R K »\ J\ R s R :; S s « R ft o R "1 us u) oo (2 J»» s tr> • •M 0» Fi f^ , t>» H •^ »— < us • ■V H •? o (X> ^ en 01 o O us us 00 uj o •-> ■* us >n CO tn 04 us OS re 00 CO OS -H o US --^ OS us 8 I- U3 00 us o» eo o 90 90 H H O) us US o US APPENDIX. 183 n 4i A 8 H us "1 X © ,51 s o ©I 00 3 •> fl rs « m . — g a ©» us «o 00 o us 00 us 00 S s s (4 00 CO OS © us 9C 00 H 00 oo us uo us us 00 00 us a so m CO us J^ »" n •* a u at 00 us »» c« IIS us us ^S to 00 a ^ S a ■^ OS -r • u o« — w 00 •" K ■fi -E t- .^ 00 J , • w CO «M OJ CM > «o *-H 00 ts 1-1 u (3 S .a 1 01 3 o I «< .a a, U en o CO bo B a e 3 (S o © 00 00 us © <-> OS us CO 00 00 CN ™ »- OS — us us us 00 eo us OO oo «0 OS OS — OJ us o o 00 0« 00 o © © 04 0« OS us oo CO »t< o» o 00 us Ol us us us -H CO ►- oo « »- 05 CO o o " us US CO us 00 o» 04 us OS us 0> 00 uy t- -H -H Ti< —> TC © oc OS CO eo us us us o 90 © 00 © us © 00 OS us OS o © CO us 04 us i— © us us ©» ■^ CO us us us CO CM us 00 05 CO © X OS 00 X 0» © _. CO us eo 9t © us OS " © oo o o 05 X s,alpina. Linn. Sp. pi. p. 928. Fl. Dan. t. 62. Curtis in Bot. Mag. t. 226. Wahl. Fl. Lapp. p. 181. Pursh. Fl. N.Am. V. 2. p. 426. , ' This species does not appear to have been found in any of the previous Arctic Voyages of Discovery. I have re- ceived it, however, from Greenland. It is an inhabitant of the northern parts of the continent of North America, in Labrador (Colmaster), Lapland and Greenland. The speci- men in the collection has its upper cauline leaves very broad and coarsely toothed. 7. A. hispida. Br. in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 4. p. 106. Rich, in Frankl. Journ. App. ed. 4. ined 26. Hooker in Parry's 2d Voy. App. ined. ■n^ APPENDIX. im n\ A. hastiiluta. Sin. Engl. Bnt. t. 469. Curdamine petroea Lightf. Fl. Scot. p. 347. t. 15. f. 2. Arabis petrcea, |3. Dc Cand. Syst. Voget. v. 2. p. 289. Cardamink. 8. C. pratensis. Linn. Sp. pi. p. D15. Sin. Engl. Bot. t. 770. Rich, in Frankl. Jouru. App. ed. 4. p. 20. Hooker in Parry's 8d. Voy. App. ined. CARYOPHYLLE.E. Lychnis. 9. L. apetnla. Linn. Fl. Lapp. (cd. Sm.) p. 150. t. 12. f. 4. Fl. Dan. t. 30.5. Wahl. Fl. Lapp. p. 135. t. 7. Brown, in Ross's Voy. ed. 2. v. 2. p. 192. Rich, in Frankl. Joiirn. App. ed. 4. p. 18. Hooker in Parry's 2d Voy. App. ined. Stellaru. 10. S. IcEta. Rich, in Frankl. Journ. App. ed. 4. p. 16. Hooker in Parry's 2d Voy. App. ined. Ckrastium. 11. C. alpinum. Linn. Sp. PI. p. 628. Sm. Eng. Bot. t. 472. Brown, in Ross's Voy. ed. 2. v. 2. p. 192. Br, in Parry's 1st Voy. App. p. cclxxi. Rich, in Frankl. Journ. ed. 4. App. ed. 4. p. 18. Hooker in Parry's 2d Voy. App. ined. PORTULACEiE. MONTIA. 12. M. fontana. Linn. Sp. Pi. p. 129. Fl. Dan. t. 131. Sm. Engl. Bot. t. 120G. Wahl. Fl. Lapp. p. 45. New to Arctic America ; and indeed never stated to be an inhabitant of any part of that continent. It occurs in Lapland and Iceland. The specimens in this collection are not in flower. 190 APPENDIX. SAXIFRAGEiE. Saxifraaa. 13. S. opposiiifolia. Linn. Sp. PI. p. 775. Sm. Engl. Bot. t. 10. Brown in Ross's Voy. ed. 2. v. 2. p. 102. Br. in Parry's Ist Voy. App. p. cclxxiii. Rich. in. Frankl. Journ. ed. 4. App. p. \^. Hooker in Parry's 2d. Voy. App. ined. The flowers of the individual!! in thin collection are of a very large size. 14. S. Hircutus. Linn. Sp. PI. p. 570. Sm. Engl. Bot. t. 1009. Brown, in Parry's 1st Voy. App. p. cclxxiii. Rich, in Frankl. Journ. App. ed. 4. p. 13. Hooker in Parry's 2d Voy. App. ined. S. propinqua, Br. in Ross's Voy. ed. 2. v. 2. p. 57G. 15. S. iricuspidata. " Rottb. in act. Hafn. v. 10. p. 440. t. 6. n. 21." Fl. Dan. t. 07fl. Brown, in Ross's Voy. ed. 2. v. 2. p. 192. Bro\vn, in Parry's 1st Voy. App. p. cclxxiv. Rich, in Frankl. Journ. ed. 4. App. p. 13. 16. S. rivularis. Linn. Sp. PI. p. 517. Sm. Engl. Bot.t. 2275. Hooker in Parry's 2d Voy. App. ined. — S. hyper- borea. Brown in Pan7's 1st Voy. App. p. cclxxiv. There exist only leaves of this, intermixed with Bryum punctatum. These leaves have not the viscid hairs of Brown's and Richardson's S. petiolaris. 17. S, nivalis. Linn. Sp. PI. p. 573. Fl. Dan. t. 28. Sm. Engl. Bot. t. 440. Brown, in Parry's 1st Voy. App. p. cclxxiv. Hooker, in Parry's 2d Voy. App. ined. 18. S. cernua. Linn. Sp. PI, p. 557. Fl. Dan. t. 390. Sm. Engl. Bot. t. 604. Brown, in Ross's Voy. ed. 2. v. 2. p. 192. Br. in Parry's 1st Voy. App. p. cclxxv. Rich, in Frankl. Journ. ed. 4. App. p. 13. Hooker, in Parry's 2d Voy. App. ined. ■- ^ Chrvsospleniuat. 19. C. altemifoliwn. Linn. Sp. PI. p. 569. Fl. Dan. t. APPLNDIX. 191 . Bot. Br. in Journi ). ined. e of a ;1. Bot. . Rich, ry's 2d p. 440. y. ed. 2. cclxxiv. I. Bot. t. hyper- Bryum hairs of 28. Sm. App. p« t. 390. >. V. 2. p. Rich, in 'arry's 2d I. Dan. t. :i30. Rm. Eii£?I. Dot. t. il. Browy, Parry's 1st Voy. Api). p. cclxxv. Rich. itiFruiikl. Juurn. ed. 4. App. p. 13. Hooker, in Parry's 8d Voy. App. ined. ROSACEA. Dryas. 20. D. iniegrijhlia. Vahl. iti Act. Hafu. v. 4. P. II. p. 172. n. Dan. t. 1210. Brown, in Rosii's Voy. ed. 2. v. 2. p. 193. Br. in Parry's 1st Voy. App. p. cclxxvi. Rich, in Trankl. Journ. ed. 4. App. p. 21. Hooker in Pane's ad Voy. App. ined. Draba teneliu. Pursh. Fi. N. Am. v. 1. p. 350. I have already stated it as my opinion, that this is only a variety of Dryas octopetaia. All the intermediate states of the two species are found in the Arctic Regions. COMPOSITE. Chrysanthemum. 21. C. integri folium. Rich, in Frank. Journ. ed. 4. App. p. 33. Hooker, in Parry's 2d Voy. App. ined. Pyreturum. 22. P. ffrandiflorum^ foliis (omnibus) bipinnatiiidis laciniii linearibus acutis, caule unifloro. Hooker, in Parry's 2d Voy. App. ined. This interesting plant was first discovered during Captain Parry's 2d Voyage, at Repulse Bay, Fern Island and Neerlo- Nakto. VACCINEiE. Vaccinium. 23. V. nliginosum. Linn. S. PI. p. 499. Sm. Engl. Bot. t. 581. Fl, Diin. t. 231. Rich, in Frankl. Journ. ed. 4. App. p. 12. Hooker, in Parry's 2d Voy. App. ined. ' I'i 192 APPENDIX. 24. V. Myrtillus. Linl'i. Sp. PI. p. 498. Fl. Dan. t. 974. Sm. Engl. Bot. t. 456. Of this plant there is but a single leaf, which was found on an iceberg in the middle of Hudson's Strait, along with some foliage of a Qucrcm ; nevertheless there can be, I think, no doubt of its belonging to our common Whortleberry. This species of Vaccinium has never been given as a certain inhabitant of North America. It was not found by Captain Franklin, nor by any of our Arctic voyagers, nor is it in- cluded in Pursh'a or Nuttall's Floras of America ; but Sir J. E. Smith, under the article of V. Myrtillus, in Rees' Cy- clopeedia, observes, " Mr. Menzies brought from the west coast of America what we can scarcely consider more than a gigantic variety of this plant, seven or eight feet high, lar- ger in every part, with less distinctly serrated leaves." To such an individual, however, the leaf in question can hardly have belonged as it is unusually small. On the continent of Europe, the common Whortleberry extends throughout all Lapland, and it is common in Iceland. I have not seen it in any collection of Greenland plants, although Egede states that it is found in that country. In Pennant's Arctic Zoology it is given aa an inhabitant of Nootka Sound. Arbutus. 25. A. alpina. Linn. Sp. PI. p. 566. Fl. Dan. t. 75. Sm. Engl. Bot. t. 2039. Lightf. Fl. Scot. p. 215. t. 11. f. a. b. Rich, in Frankl. Journ. ed. 4. App. p. 38. Hooker, in Parry's 2d Voy. App. ined. ^^ Jteoicularis. 27. P. fursuta. Linn. Sp. PI. p. 847. FL Lapp. (ed. Sm.) p. 81 1. t. 4. f. 3. Fl. Dan. t. 1 105. Brown, in Ross's Voy. ed. 2. V. 2. p. 193. Rich, in Frankl, Journ. ed. 4. App. p. 95. Hooker, in Parry's 2d Voy. App. ined. ■ •i . * f - io - POLYGONEiaS. V j. Polygonum. ^ ' "^ 28. P. viviparum. Linn. Sp.Pl. p. 616. Fl. Dan^ t. 13. Sm. Engl. Bot. t. 669. Brown, in Parry's 1st Voy. App. cclxxxii. Rich, in FranklJourn. ed. 4. App. p. 13. Hooker, in Parry's 2d Voy. App. ined. AMENTACE^. ; 29. S. reticulata. Linn. Sp. PI. p. 1446. PI. Dan. t. 212. Sm. Eng. Bot. t. 1908. Rich, in Frankl. Journ. ed. 4. App. p. 37. Hooker, in Parry's 2d Voy. App. ined. SO. S.arctica. Brown, in Ross' Voy. ed. 2. v. 2. p. 194. Br. in Parry's lat Voy. App. p. cclxxxii. Rich, in Frankl. Journ. App. ed. 4. p. 37. Hooker, in Parry's 2d Voy. App. ined. S. n. 37. Hooker, in Scoresby's E. Coast of W. Green- land. App. p. 414. QUERCUS. 31. Quercus, /?o6«r? /» ,^ „ , o m APPENDIX. The extremity of a branch, with four small leaves of a Qttercus, were discovered along with the leaf of Vaccinium Myrtittus, on an ice island, in the centre of Hudson's Strait. These leaves have the most entire resemblance to those of our Quercus Rdbur and sessiUJlora^ but being without either flower or acorns, it would be impossible to say to which of these two species it had belonged. To one of them, how> ever, I think it may, with tolerable certainty, be said that they do belong. I have in vain endeavoured to discover any resemblance between them and the foliage of any Ame- rican oak in my collection ; nor are either of the common European oaks mentioned as natives of the American Con- tinent. In a pamphlet that Mr. Winch has published upon the geographical distribution of plants, it is stated that the river Dal, in Sweden, in latitude 60° SO" North, and Christi- ana, in Norway, in lat. 59** 56", are the northern limits of the growth of oak in Europe. The same author observes, that the oaks which he noticed on the banks of the Gotha, in lat. 58^, were of a very diminutive size. The oak is ex- cluded from the Flfyra Lapponicat nor does it grow in Ice- land. On the eaftem limits of Siberia, however, it is found ; but I shall give what is stated on this subject in the Flora Sibirica of Omeiin (v. 1. p. 150,) in that author's own words. " Audivi nasci in orientali Arguni fluvii ripa, viginti circiter leucas 4 fluvio, in Sinicis finibus, quo ire non licuit. Dicunt etiam ad Anurem fluvium copiose nasci. Aliis locis inSibiria heec arbor non occurrit, etsi in Casanensi regno frequen- tissima, quin etiam in tota fere Russia non raro inventu est.' !V, J APPENDIX. 19.5 CYPERACEiE. .. A u MONOCOTYLEDONES • "' ♦ ^'^ ' Carex. . (t . — • • 32. G. incurva. Lightf. Fl. Scot. p. 544. t. 24. f. 1. Sm. Engl. Bot. t. 027. Fl. Dan. t. 432. Wahl. Fl. Lapp. p. 226. Not enumerated in any account of the plants of America, but an inhabitant of the north of Britain and of Europe ge- nerally. 33. C. membranaceay spica mascula subsolitaria, femineis magis minusve nitidis pedicellatis oblongo-cylindraceis erec- tis obtusis (atro-fuscis), f ructu Isevi rotundato inflatu brevi- ter acuminato bifido pedunculato, vaginis perbrevibus. Hooker, in Parry's 2d Voy. App. ined. This species was found in Duke of York's Bay, during Captain Parry's Second Voyage. Eriophoruh. 34. E. capitatum. Host. Gram. Austr. t. 38. Sm. Engl. Bot. t. 2387. Fl. Dan. t. 1502. Brown, in Parry's Ist Voy. App. p. cclxxxix. Hooker, in Parry's 2d Voy. App. ined. E. Scheuchzeri, Roth in Sims' Ann. of Bot. v. 1. p. 149. 35. E. angusHfolium. Hoifm. Fl. Germ. ed. 1. v. 1. p. 19. Sm. Engl. Bot. t. 3S4. Fl. Dan. t. 1447. Brown, in Parry's Ist Voy. App. p. cclxxxiv. Rich, in Frankl. Journ. ed. 4* App. p. 31. " , ■ ' • ► E. polystachion. Curt. Fl. Lond. ed. 1. - ' ,; . GRAMINEJE DUPONTIA. 36. D. Fischeri. Brown, in Parry's 1st Voy. App. p. ccxci. Hooker, in Parry's 2d Voy App. ined. Air A. 37. A. aquatica. Linn. Sp. PI. p. 95. Fl. Dan. t. 381. Sm* Engl. Bot. 1. 1557. Rich, in Frankl. Journal, ed. 4. App. p. 3. O 2 196 APPENDIX. Catabrosia aquatica. Beauv. Roem. et Schultz. v. 2. p. 606. In the only specimen of this plant the leaves are deep purple ; the calyces 3 — 4 flowered. This was not found dur- ing any of the foregoing Arctic voyages, but was met with by Dr. Richardson in the woody country of North America , between lat. 54* and 64». r"'f Alopeourus. 38. A. alpinus. Sm. Engl. Bot. t . 1126. Brown, in Ross' Voy. ed. 2. v. 2. p. 191. Rich, in Frankl. Journ. ed. 4. App. p. 3. Brown, in Parry's 1st Voy. App. p. cclxxxiv. Hooker, in Parry's 2d Voy. App. ined. ...jl .'r i . « COLPODIUM. 89. C. laiifolium. Brown, in Parry's 1st Voy. App. p; cclxxxvi. and p. cccix. Hooker, in Parry's 2d Voy. App. ined. ,.^ , V POA. ._ , . >, ,^ 40. P. laxa. Willd. Sp. PI. v. 1. p. 386. Wahl. Fl. Lapp, p. 40. Hooker. Fl. Scot. p. 34. ^-..^..u > > .f-.> -f ,?jtiA P. flexuosa. Sm. Engl. Bot. t. 1 123. This is somewhat different from the P. artica of Brown, yet I fear that the two species are but too closely allied. .? «. 41. F. ftreM/o/m. Brown, in Parry's 1st Voy. p. cclxxxix. Hooker, in Parry's 2d Voy. App. ined. Eltmus. ' '' 42. E. arenarius. Linn. Sp. PI. p. 122. Fl. Dan. t. 847. Sm. Engl; Bot. t. 1672. Hooker, in Parry's 2d Voy. App. ined. 1- -f r:-- ;•» 'ft-,*- -: - APPENDIX. 197 •H' -I- til .-« . . , ACOTYLEDONES. ^ ^ MUSCI. • ■■ - ■ Sflaohndm. ^ *' 43. S.vasculosum. Hedw. St. Cr. v. 8. 1. 15. Hooker and Tayl. Muse. Brit. p. 81. S. rugosum, Sm. Engl. Bot. t. 8094 ? No fruit was found upon this moss. DiDTMODON. 44. D. capiUaceum^ fi. statura humiliore,foliis stridioribus et hreviaribus. Brown, in Parry's 1st Voy. App. p. ccxcvii. Hooker, in Parry's 8d Voy. App. ined. D. subulatum Schkuhr Deutsch. Moos. p. 65. t. 88. Small steril stems of this are among the specimens of agaricus ericetorum. - ■ . - - ' '" ' ■ ' ' HypNUM. 45. H. cuspidatum. Linn. Sp. PL p. 1595. Sm. Engl. Bot. t. 8407. Hooker and Tayl. Muse. Brit. p. 107. t. 86. Hooker, in Parry's Sd Voy. App. ined. This moss is ^vithout fructification. 46. H. aduncum. Ldnn. Sp. PI. p. 1598. Sm. Engl. Bot. t. 8073. Hooker and Tayl. Muse. Brit. p. 111. t. 86. Brown, in Parry's 1st Voy. App. p. ccxcT. Hooker, in Parry's 8d Voy. App. ined. , .»:.!•:': ..v ^ ' :^- Not in fructification. ' • . . . l. • '■■' Bryum. '■■■'' 47. B. caspititium. Linn. Sp. PI. p. 1586. Sm. Engl. Bot. t. 1904. Hooker and Tayl. Muse. Brit. p. 181. t. 89. Rich, in Frank. Journ. ed. 1. App. p. 756. Hooker, in Parry's 8d Voy. App. ined. . s This has abundance of fructification, and belongs to that variety which I have mentioned in Parry's 2d Voyage, " fo • 198 APPENDIX. ! liis rotundato-ovatis acuininatia concavis, rapsula brevi py- rifonni." 48. B. turbinatum. Sw. Muse. Suec. p. 40. Sm. Engl. Bot. t. 1572? Hooker and Tayl. Muse. Brit. p. 122. t. 29. Hooker, in Parry's 2d Voy. App. ined. This moss is destitute of fruetification. 49. B.pundatum. Schreb. Fl. Laps. p. 85. Sm. Engl. Bot. t. 1183. Hooker and Tayl. Muse. Brit. p. 124. t. 30, Hooker, in Parry's 2d Voy. App. ined. The specimens are not in fruetification. '^ ■' HEPATIOaS. JV ',-vl ,.; .-.'-. .11 Marohantia. 50. M. polymorpha. Linn. Sp. PI. p. 1603. Sm. Engl. Bot. t. 210. Hooked, in Parry's 2d Voy. App. ined. No fruit: the fronds are singularly broad. , ^y. Mr ..i UCHENES. ^^: ■> :i t CoRNIOVLAniA. vi.,, i! Vr ••'■<■' 51. 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