. Narrative of discovery and adventure in the polar seas and regions [microform] : with illustrations of their climate, geology, and natural history, and an account of the whale-fishery. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. |i: 1 n f. n \. 244 RECENT NORTH-WEST VOYAGES. most careful attention to the health and comfort of the crews; but though their spirits did sink, there appears to have been, on the whole, less of gayety and lightness of heart than in the two former winterings. We hear nothing of the drama or even of the school. In this position, north of Winter Island, they were deprived fo
. Narrative of discovery and adventure in the polar seas and regions [microform] : with illustrations of their climate, geology, and natural history, and an account of the whale-fishery. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. |i: 1 n f. n \. 244 RECENT NORTH-WEST VOYAGES. most careful attention to the health and comfort of the crews; but though their spirits did sink, there appears to have been, on the whole, less of gayety and lightness of heart than in the two former winterings. We hear nothing of the drama or even of the school. In this position, north of Winter Island, they were deprived for about seven weeks of the sun's cheering beams. On the 2d December refraction still showed, from the deck of the Fury, about the sixteenth part of his disk. About the new year, Arcturus and Ca- pellaj stars of the first magnitude, were visible for naif an hour before and after midday. On the 5th January (1823), the horizon was so brightly suf- fused with red, that they hoped ere long to see the sun's orb burst forth; but a fortnight of thick fog occasioned a disappointment. On the 19th, the sky having cleared, they saw him rise, attended by two parhelia, and both crews turned out to enjoy the novelty and splendour of this cheering spectacle. The sailors found at Igloolik a colony of Esqui- maux, who received them at first with surprise and some degree of alarm; but, on learning they were from Winter Island and intimate with its tenants of last season, they hailed them at once as familiar acquaintances. These natives belonged to the same tribe, and were connected by alliance and close relationship with many individuals of the Winter Island party; of whom, therefore, they weie de- lighted to receive tidings. The crews spent tho winter with them on quite a friendly footing, and rendered important services to them during a period of severe sickness. This intercourse, however, was not on the whole nearly so satisfactory as in the former place and season. It began to be observed, th
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