Journal of a second voyage for the discovery of a north-west passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific : performed in the years 1821-22-23, in His Majesty's ships Fury and Hecla, under the orders of Captain William Edward Parry : illustrated by numerous plates . ame ofHooper Inlet, after my friend Mr. Hooper, purser of the Fury. I found from Captain Lyon on my return that, in consequence of some ice 362 SECOND VOYAGE FOR THE DISCOVERY 1822. coming in near the ships, (most probably that which had lately been dis-y^-rsu lodged from Richards Bay,) he had shifted them round the point into thebirths
Journal of a second voyage for the discovery of a north-west passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific : performed in the years 1821-22-23, in His Majesty's ships Fury and Hecla, under the orders of Captain William Edward Parry : illustrated by numerous plates . ame ofHooper Inlet, after my friend Mr. Hooper, purser of the Fury. I found from Captain Lyon on my return that, in consequence of some ice 362 SECOND VOYAGE FOR THE DISCOVERY 1822. coming in near the ships, (most probably that which had lately been dis-y^-rsu lodged from Richards Bay,) he had shifted them round the point into thebirths where it was my intention to place them during the winter; wherethey now lay in from eleven to fourteen fathoms at the distance of threecables lengths from the shore. The point of Oonga-looi/at is rendered conspicuous at some distance byfifteen walls of loose stones, disposed in a tolerably regular oval form,about live feet high, from forty-one to twenty-seven feet in length, andfrom thirty-three to eighteen in breadth, the longest diameter being fromnorth to south. The greater part of these had at their south ends akind of recess, and some of them two, as in the annexed figures 1 and2, the entrance being through a gap in the wall, at e. A smaller oval. North. of stones was placed in the middle of the principal one, and had beenused simply for- confining the tent-skins of the Esquimaux, who had leftbehind them the usual traces of recent habitation, such as oil, bones andputrid flesh in abundance. The small central space at s was sunk abouta foot below the level of the ground, and the parts marked b had served asbeds, being raised with flat stones about a foot, and covered with use of the principal or outer circles, which differed from any thing wehad observed elsewhere, was not at first very obvious to us, but Ewerat andTogolat one day explained that they were only used at the killing of awhale, on which rare and grand occasion they indulge, it seems, in morethan o
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