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 . A. OF A NORTH-WEST PASSAGE. 173 they had become rather an annoyance in this way. They now brought with p1^2,2them a great many little canoes and paddles, sledges, figures of men andwomen, and other toys, most of them already bespoke by the officers and men,and the rest for sale. There was to-day a great deal of open water to the southwa
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 . A. OF A NORTH-WEST PASSAGE. 173 they had become rather an annoyance in this way. They now brought with p1^2,2them a great many little canoes and paddles, sledges, figures of men andwomen, and other toys, most of them already bespoke by the officers and men,and the rest for sale. There was to-day a great deal of open water to the southward, and it hadonce more approached us within half a mile, the ice at the mouth of the bayhaving broken off and drifted away. Mr. Crozier, who visited the huts,found that the Esquimaux, as well as ourselves, had been induced to attemptthe destruction of their followers, the wolves, by setting a trap for them notunlike ours, except in the materials, which consisted only of their staple com-modity, ice. They had indeed great occasion to employ some such meansto destroy these rapacious animals, which had already carried off one ortwo of their dogs, and threatened nightly to repeat this outrage. Toolooak, who now considered himself as quite privileged to find h
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