. A journey from Prince of Wales's Fort, in Hudson's Bay, to the northern ocean [microform] : undertaken by order of the Hudson's Bay Company for the discovery of copper mines, a north west passage, &c. in the years 1769, 1770, 1771 & 1772. Indians of North America; Natural history; Indiens; Sciences naturelles. NORTHERN OCEAN. By the time the Indians had killed as many deer as they thought would be fufficient for the fupport of the women during our abfence, it was the firft of July ; and during this time I had two good obfervations, both by meridional and double altitudes; the mean of
. A journey from Prince of Wales's Fort, in Hudson's Bay, to the northern ocean [microform] : undertaken by order of the Hudson's Bay Company for the discovery of copper mines, a north west passage, &c. in the years 1769, 1770, 1771 & 1772. Indians of North America; Natural history; Indiens; Sciences naturelles. NORTHERN OCEAN. By the time the Indians had killed as many deer as they thought would be fufficient for the fupport of the women during our abfence, it was the firft of July ; and during this time I had two good obfervations, both by meridional and double altitudes; the mean of which determined the latitude of Congecathawhachaga to be 68* 46' North; and its longitude, by account, was 24° 2' Weft from Prince of Wales's Fort, or 118* 15' Weft of the meridiaia of On the (econd, tlic weather proved very bad, with much J*. fnow and fleet; about nine o'clock at night, however, it grew more moderate, and fomewhat clearer, fo that we fet out, and walked about ten miles to the North by Weft, when wc lay down to take a little fleep. At our de- parture from Congecathawhachaga, feveral Indicms who had entered the war-lift, rather chofe to ftay behind with the women; but their lofs was amply fupplied by Copper Indians, who accompanied us in the double capacity of guides and warriors. On the third the weather was equally bad with that of 3d. the preceding day ; we made fliift, however, to walk ten or eleven miles in the fame direction we had done the day before, and at laft were obliged to put up, not being able to fee our way for fnow and thick drift. By putting up, no more is to be underftood than that we got to leeward of a S 3 great. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hearne, Samuel, 1745-1792. London : Printed for A. Strahan and T. Cadell . ..
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