. Arctic researches, and life among the Esquimaux;. ,f abeautiful sheet of water on the east side of the tower, fiere weerected our tupic, such as we could make, and the United Statesflag floated from its top. Our appearance at that time may beconceived from the following ENCAMPMENT AT 1 DOT OF JOME&S TOWEU. Next morning, having a cloudless sky and a gentle breeze(which afterward, however, increased to a strong gale), we pursuedour way. In a short time we captured another fine seal, whichwas deposited en cache, to be available on our return. As we pro-ceeded, scenes of increasing beau
. Arctic researches, and life among the Esquimaux;. ,f abeautiful sheet of water on the east side of the tower, fiere weerected our tupic, such as we could make, and the United Statesflag floated from its top. Our appearance at that time may beconceived from the following ENCAMPMENT AT 1 DOT OF JOME&S TOWEU. Next morning, having a cloudless sky and a gentle breeze(which afterward, however, increased to a strong gale), we pursuedour way. In a short time we captured another fine seal, whichwas deposited en cache, to be available on our return. As we pro-ceeded, scenes of increasing beauty met my eye. The shore ofthe dreaded land presented many features of interest to me, forit was all new, and especially attractive from its associations with * Andromeda tetragona, a plant of the heath tribe that abounds throughout thearctic regions. t This bay I named after Samuel 1! bins id, of Cincinnati, Ohio. CAPE DALY.—HUDSONS ISLAND. 303 the expeditions of Martin Frobisher. On tbe left were severalchannels of open water. Before and around me were several ice-bergs frozen in tbe pack—one berg in particular being very mag-nificent in appearance, and resembling a Gothic church. We had now advanced about six miles from Joness Tower,and had reached Cape Daly,*
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