. Arctic explorations: the second Grinnell expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55. inch in thickness. FLAGSTAFF POINT. 53 We found other traces of Esquimaux, both on Lit-tleton IsUind and in Shoal-Water Cove, near it. Theyconsisted of huts, graves, places of deposit for meat,and rocks arranged as foxtraps. These were evidentlyvery ancient; but they were so well preserved, that itwas impossible to say how long they had been aban-doned, whether for fifty or a hundred years before. Our stores deposited, it was our next office to erecta beacon and intrust to it our tidings. We c
. Arctic explorations: the second Grinnell expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55. inch in thickness. FLAGSTAFF POINT. 53 We found other traces of Esquimaux, both on Lit-tleton IsUind and in Shoal-Water Cove, near it. Theyconsisted of huts, graves, places of deposit for meat,and rocks arranged as foxtraps. These were evidentlyvery ancient; but they were so well preserved, that itwas impossible to say how long they had been aban-doned, whether for fifty or a hundred years before. Our stores deposited, it was our next office to erecta beacon and intrust to it our tidings. We chose forthis purpose the Western Cape of Littleton more conspicuous than Cape Hatherton; built ourcairn; wedged a staff into the crevices of the rocks;and, spreading the American flag, hailed its folds withthree cheers as they expanded in the cold midnightbreeze. These important duties performed,—the morelightly, let me say, for this little flicker of enthusiasm,—we rejoined the brig early in the morning of the7th, and forced on again toward the north, beatingagainst wind and \ CHAPTER VI. CLOSING WITH THE ICE — REFUGE HARBOR — DOGS — WALRUS —NARWHAL — ICE-HILLS — BEACON-CAIRN — ANCHORED TO A BERG — ESQUIMAUX HUTS — PETER EORCE BAY CAPE CORNELIUS GRINNELL — SHALLOW^S A GALE THE RECREANT DOGS. August 8, Monday.—I had seen the ominous blinkahead of us from the Flagstaff Point of Littleton Island;and before two hours were over, we closed with ice tothe westward. It was in the form of a pack, veryheavy, and several seasons old; but we stood on,boring the loose stream-ice, until we had passed someforty miles beyond Cape Life-boat Cove. Here it be-came impossible to force our way farther; and, a densefog gathering round us, we were carried helplessly tothe eastward. We should have been forced upon theGreenland coast; but an eddy close in shore releasedus for a few moments from the direct pressure, and wewere fortunate enough to get out a wha
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