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Identifier: Journalsecondvo00Parr (find matches)
Title: 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
Year: 1824 (1820s)
Authors: Parry, William Edward, Sir, 1790-1855 Lyon, G. F. (George Francis), 1795-1832, ill Finden, Edward Francis, 1791-1857, engraver Melville, Robert Saunders Dundas, Viscount, 1771-1851, dedicatee
Subjects: Parry, William Edward, Sir, 1790-1855 Fury (Ship) Hecla (Ship) Natural history Eskimos Inuit
Publisher: London : John Murray
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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ons and blankets. As the distancewas too great for her son Sioutkuk to walk, we were uncertain till themoment of setting out how this was to be managed, there being no sledgeat hand for the purpose. We found hoAvever that a man, whom we had ob-served for some time at work among the hummocks of ice upon the beach,had been employed in cutting out of that abundant material a neat andserviceable little sledge, hollowed like a bowl or tray out of a solid block,and smoothly rounded at the bottom. The thong to which the dogs wereattached was secured to a groove cut round its upper edge ; and the youngseal-catcher, seated in this simple vehicle, was dragged along with greatconvenience and comfort. The ice over which we travelled was a level floe that had never suffereddisturbance since its first formation in the autumn, and with not more thanan inch and a half of snow upon it. The path being distinctly marked out bythe people, sledges, and dogs, that had before travelled upon it, one might, \
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OF A NORTH-WEST PASSAGE. 207 without any great stretch of the imagination, have almost fancied it a road JJ822,leading over a level and extensive heath towards a more civilized and sub- v-^-y-Ostantial village than that which we were now approaching. Iligliuk walkedas nimbly as the best of us ; and after two hours and a half brisk travelling,we arrived at the huts, and were received by the women (for all the menwere absent) with every expression of kindness and welcome. Each wasdesirous of affording us lodging, and we had speedily arranged matters so asto put them to the least possible inconvenience. These huts, four in number, were in the mode of their construction exactcounterparts of those at Winter Island on our first visit, but being now newand clean, presented a striking contrast with the latter, in their presentdisordered and filthy state. What gave a peculiarity as well as beauty alsoto the interior appearance of these habitations, was their being situatedon the ice, which bei

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