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 . d. The passages to these are so low as tomake it necessary to crawl on the hands and knees to enter them ; and thefloors of the apartments were in some so steep and slippery, that we couldwith difficulty pass and repass, without the risk of continually falling amongthe filth with which they were covered. These were the dirtiest because
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 . d. The passages to these are so low as tomake it necessary to crawl on the hands and knees to enter them ; and thefloors of the apartments were in some so steep and slippery, that we couldwith difficulty pass and repass, without the risk of continually falling amongthe filth with which they were covered. These were the dirtiest because themost durable of any Esquimaux habitations we had yet seen, and it may besupposed they did not much improve during the winter. Some bitches withyoung were very carefully and conveniently lodged in small square kennels,made of four upright slabs of ice covered with a fifth, and having a smallhole as a door in one of the sides. The canoes were also laid upon twoslabs of this kind, like tall tomb-stones standing erect; and a quantity ofspare slabs lying in different places gave the ground an appearance somewhatresembling that of a statuarys yard. Large stores of walrus and sealsflesh, principally the former, were deposited under heaps of stones all about. OF A NORTH-WEST PASSAGE. 359 the beach and, as we afterwards found, in various other parts of the island, 1822-which shewed that they had made some provision for the winter though, yrrv>with their enormous consumption of food, it proved a very inadequateone. The breeze continuing fresh from the westward, with clear weather, the Wed. fell to 12° on the morning of the 25th. Being desirous of ascer-taining, as soon as possible, in what situation it would be expedient to placethe ships for the winter, several boats were despatched to sound along theshore; when I found that the only spot likely to afford shelter, or even anynear approach to the land, was within a point called Oong-aldoydt, at the en-trance of a fi
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