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On the 23d we went on shore to pay another visit to theEsquimaux, who came down on the ice in great numbers to receiveus, repeatedly stroking down the front of their jackets with thepalm of the hand as they advanced, a custom not before mentioned,as we had some doubt about it at Winter Island, and which theysoon discontinued here. They also frequently called outtima, a word which, according to Hearne, signifies in theEsquimaux language, "What cheer!" and which Captain Franklinheard frequently used on first accosting the natives at the mouthof the Coppermine River. It seems to be among these people asalutation equivalent to that understood by these travellers, orat least some equally civil and friendly one, for nothing couldexceed the attention which they paid us on landing. Someindividual always attached himself to each of us immediately onour leaving the boat, pointing out the best road, and taking usby the hand or arm to help us over the streams of water orfissures in the ice, and attending us wherever we went during ourstay on shore. The day proving extremely fine and pleasant,everything assumed a different appearance from that at our formervisit, and we passed some hours on shore very agreeably. Abouthalf a mile inland of the tents, and situated upon the risingground beyond the swamps and ponds before mentioned, we found theruins of several winter habitations, which, upon land so low asIgloolik, formed very conspicuous objects at the distance ofseveral miles to seaward. These were of the same circular anddome-like form as the snow-huts, but built with much more durablematerials, the lower part or foundation being of stones, and therest of the various bones of the whale and walrus, graduallyinclining inward and meeting at the top. The crevices, as well asthe whole of the outside, were then covered with turf, which,with the additional coating of snow in the winter, serves toexclude the cold air very effectually. The entrance is towardsthe south, and consists of a passage ten feet long, and not morethan two in height and breadth, built of flat slabs of stone,having the same external covering as that of the huts. The bedsare raised by stones two feet from the ground, and occupy aboutone third of the apartment at the inner end; and the windows anda part of the roofs had been taken away for the convenience ofremoving their furniture in the spring. It was a naturalinference, from the nature of these habitations, that thesepeople, or at least a portion of them, were constant residents onthis spot, which, indeed, seemed admirably calculated to affordin luxurious profusion all that constitutes Esquimaux felicity.This, however, did not afterward prove to be absolutely the case;for though Igloolik (as perhaps the name may imply) is certainlyone of their principal and favourite rendezvous, yet wesubsequently found the inland entirely deserted by them at thesame season.

The different character now assumed by the ice, while itcertainly damped our hopes of the passage being cleared thisseason by the gradual effects of dissolution, confirmed, however,in a very satisfactory manner, the belief of our being in a broadchannel communicating with a western sea. As the conclusions weimmediately drew from this circumstance may not be so obvious toothers, I shall here briefly explain that, from the manner inwhich the hummocky floes are formed, it is next to impossiblethat any of these of considerable extent can ever be produced ina mere inlet having a narrow communication with the sea. Thereis, in fact, no ice to which the denomination of "sea-ice" may bemore strictly and exclusively applied than this; and we thereforefelt confident that the immense floes which now opposed ourprogress must have come from the sea on one side or the other;while the current, which we had observed to run in an easterlydirection in the narrows, of this strait, precluded thepossibility of such ice having found its way in from thatquarter. The only remaining conclusion was, that it must havebeen set into the strait from the westward towards the close of asummer, and cemented in its present situation by the frost of thesucceeding winter.

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Our lengthened acquaintance with the Esquimaux and theirlanguage, which a second winter passed among them afforded, gaveus an opportunity of occasionally explaining to them in somemeasure in what direction our country lay, and of giving themsome idea of its distance, climate, population, and productions.It was with extreme difficulty that these people had imbibed anycorrect idea of the superiority of rank possessed by someindividuals among us; and when at length they came into thisidea, they naturally measured our respective importance by theriches they supposed each to possess. The ships they considered,as a matter of course, to belong to Captain Lyon and myself, andon this account distinguished them by the names ofLyon-oomiak and Paree-oomiak; but they believedthat the boats and other parts of the furniture were the propertyof various other individuals among us. They were, therefore, nota little surprised to be seriously assured that neither the onenor the other belonged to any of us, but to a much richer andmore powerful person, to whom we all paid respect and obedience,and at whose command we had come to visit and enrich theInnuees. Ewerat, on account of his steadiness andintelligence, as well as the interest with which he listened toanything relating to Kabloonas, was particularly fit toreceive information of this nature; and a general chart of theAtlantic Ocean, and of the lands on each side, immediatelyconveyed to his mind an idea of the distance we had come, and thedirection in which our home lay. This and similar information wasreceived by Ewerat and his wife with the most eager astonishmentand interest, not merely displayed in the "hei-ya!" whichconstitutes the usual extent of Esquimaux admiration, butevidently enlarging their notion respecting the other parts ofthe world, and creating in them ideas which could never beforehave entered their minds. By way of trying their inclinations, Iasked them if they would consent to leave their own country, and,taking with them their children, go to live in ours, where theywould see no more Innuees, and never eat any more seal orwalrus. To all this they willingly agreed, and with anearnestness that left no doubt of their sincerity; Togolatadding, in an emphatic manner, "Shagloo ooagoot nao" (wedo not tell a falsehood), an expression of peculiar force amongthem. The eagerness with which they assented to this proposalmade me almost repent my curiosity, and I was glad to get out ofthe scrape by saying, that the great personage of whom I hadspoken would not be pleased at my taking them home without havingfirst obtained his permission. Information of the kind alluded towas subsequently given to many of the other Esquimaux, some ofwhom could at length pronounce the name of "King George" so as tobe tolerably intelligible.

On the 7th, the weather being more favourable than before,Captain Lyon and myself set out to the westward at half pasteleven A.M., and the ice proving level, reached Khemig at halfpast five; when it was satisfactory to find that the routefollowed by Captain Lyon on his journey with Toolemak wasprecisely that which I had supposed, every feature of the land,of which the fog had before scarcely allowed him a glimpse, beingnow easily recognised, and every difficulty cleared up.Proceeding at eight A.M. on the 8th, we soon met with numeroustracks of deer upon the ice, which, together with the seals thatlay in great numbers near their holes, expedited our journey veryconsiderably, the dogs frequently setting off at full gallop onsniffing one of them. Landing at the head of Quilliam Creek athalf past one, we took up an advantageous position for lookingabout us, in order to determine on the direction of CaptainLyon's route over land, which all the Esquimaux concurred inrepresenting as a laborious one. We met with several reindeerimmediately on our landing; and, while in pursuit of them,Captain Lyon discovered a lake two or three miles long and aquarter of a mile broad, a short distance from the tents, whichwe concluded to be that of which I was in search. As some of ourparty were suffering from snow-blindness, and, what is scarcelyless painful, severe inflammation of the whole face, occasionedby the heat of the sun, we remained here for the rest of this dayto make our final arrangements.

Enclosing to Captain Lyon the replies of the medicalgentlemen, I now also requested his opinion whether, underexisting circumstances, he still considered it expedient to adoptthe measure originally intended, with respect to the separationof the two ships. I had scarcely despatched a letter to thiseffect, when, at 10 A.M. on the 8th, the ice about the Fury beganto move, the pools breaking up, and the gravelled canal soonentirely closing. A breeze springing up from the northward atthis time, all sail was made upon the ship, and the ice graduallydriving out as it detached itself from the shore, the Fury gotinto open water about one P.M. The Hecla, however, still remainedin the middle of her winter's floe, which, though it moved alittle with the rest at first, did not come out of the bay. Inthe course of the afternoon, finding her still stationary, Idetermined to occupy the time in stretching over to thenorthward, for the purpose of examining the state of the fixedice at the eastern mouth of the strait; and, arriving at itsmargin by ten P.M., found it attached to both shores from thenortheastern part of Neerlo-naktoo across to Murray MaxwellInlet. It was the general opinion that this ice was in a moresolid state than at the same time and place the preceding year,but its situation did not, I believe, differ half a mile fromwhat it had then been. As the sun went down nearly in thedirection of the strait, we obtained from the masthead a distinctand extensive view in that quarter, and it is impossible toconceive a more hopeless prospect than this now presented. Onevast expanse of level solid ice occupied the whole extent of seavisible to the westward, and the eye wearied itself in vain todiscover a single break upon its surface. 2ff7e9595c