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 . to puzzle his way over fifty leagues of coastalready known, when by delineating it with tolerable accuracy, his concep-tions, instead of being confused, may be assisted. Iligliuk was not long incomprehending what we desired, and with a pencil continued the outline,making the land trend as we supposed to the north-eastward, and givingthe
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 . to puzzle his way over fifty leagues of coastalready known, when by delineating it with tolerable accuracy, his concep-tions, instead of being confused, may be assisted. Iligliuk was not long incomprehending what we desired, and with a pencil continued the outline,making the land trend as we supposed to the north-eastward, and givingthe names of the principal places as she proceeded. The scale being large,it was necessary when she came to the end of one piece of paper to tack onanother, till at length she had filled ten or twelve sheets, and had completelylost sight of Winter Island (called Neyuning-Eit-duaJ at the other end of thetable. The idea entertained from this first attempt was, that we should findthe coast indented by several inlets and in some parts much loaded with ice,especially at one strait to the northward of her native island Amitioke, whichseemed to lead in a direction very much to the westward. Within a week after this, several other charts were drawn by the natives. OF A NORTH-WEST PASSAGE. 197 in a similar way, principally by the desire of Captain Lyon and , who took great pains to acquire information of this nature, andsent me copies of these productions. The coast was here delineated asbefore, on a very large scale, but much more in detail, many more islands,bays, and names being inserted. It was observable, however, that no twocharts much resembled each other, and that the greater number of them stillless resembled the truth in those parts of the coast with which we werewell acquainted. The only one deserving further notice in this place wasdrawn by Iligliuk for Captain Lyon, of which an accurate reduction is heregiven, and marked No. 1., the scale being about one-twelfth of
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