. Arctic researches, and life among the Esquimaux;. came on from , and it soon blew a gale. This weather compelling us to hold over, we all left the sledgeand dogs, and went a few rods on to the land, to prospect for asuitable spot for an encampment. We found one by the side ofa mountain of rock. Here we broke up a beam—a part of oursledge—for fuel to prepare our coffee. We ought, for this pur-pose, to have taken with us more of the ooksook of the seal takenthe day previous; but we expected to have captured another bythat time. We saw two in the morning, but they were shy, andwent dow
. Arctic researches, and life among the Esquimaux;. came on from , and it soon blew a gale. This weather compelling us to hold over, we all left the sledgeand dogs, and went a few rods on to the land, to prospect for asuitable spot for an encampment. We found one by the side ofa mountain of rock. Here we broke up a beam—a part of oursledge—for fuel to prepare our coffee. We ought, for this pur-pose, to have taken with us more of the ooksook of the seal takenthe day previous; but we expected to have captured another bythat time. We saw two in the morning, but they were shy, andwent down. Had it not been for the hummocks, we should havepursued our course toward Halls Island; but it requires weatherin which one can see more than five fathoms ahead to travel safe-ly over such ice. The land on which we here encamped is an island about aquarter of a mile long, which I have named Sylvia*,* at the eastside of the entrance to Lupton Channel. When on the highest partof it, about 500 feet above the sea, I drew the followine; TXSW PB02I Tin: TOP OP [SLAHD. * After the daughter of Henry GrinnelL Sylvia Island is in lat. G2° 35i N.,long. 64° 36 W. VIEW Fill THE TUP OF SYLVIA ISLAND.—JONESS T( (WEB. #01 Here before me, looking southerly, was the open water of Lup-ton Channel, which, as my native attendants informed me, neverfreezes over, in consequence of the swiftly-running tides. Yonder,leading southeasterly around the bold front of Loks Laud, is BearSound; there, farther south, the low islands; and, showing dark-ly over these, the open water of Frobisher Bay, and away in theblue distance the huge mountains of Kingaite {Mela Incognita);while there, on the right, and on the left, and behind me, all wassolid ice. On Friday, June 7th, having slept soundly on the rock, webreakfasted on raw seal, and, with the aid of more fuel (anothercross-bar) from our sledge, made some hot coffee, which indeed isa great luxury at any time to an arctic traveler
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