land in the Fury, for the
purpose of erecting, in compliance with my instructions, a flagstaff
fifty-six feet in height, having at its top a ball, made of iron hoops
and canvass, ten feet in diameter, and a cylinder buried near its foot,
containing a parchment with some account of our visit to this place. In
the mean time, I requested Captain Lyon to stand over to the point of
Igloolik, where our walruses had been landed, and to bring off these, as
well as our boats and tents remaining there. The ice soon after coming
in upon the point, it was not without risk of the Hecla's being
dangerously beset that Captain Lyon succeeded in bringing off everything
but one boat. This was, indeed, no great loss to us, though a great
acquisition to the Esquimaux; for, being almost worn out, I had intended
to break her up previously to leaving the ice. Besides this, we
purposely left our sledges, and a quantity of wood in pieces of a
convenient size for bows, spears, and paddles, distributing them about
in several places, that one or two individuals might not make a prize of
the whole.

The Hecla rejoining us on the morning of the 12th, we stood out to the
eastward, and finally took our departure from Igloolik. In the course of
the night the favourable breeze failed us, and on the morning of the
14th was succeeded by a southerly wind, the ships being close to another
island called Ooglit, about twelve leagues to the S.S.W. of the others.
We were here immediately visited by our old acquaintance the Esquimaux,
several of whom came off in their canoes in the course of the morning,
as if determined to loose no opportunity of profiting by us. Among these
was our worthy old friend Nannow, to whom everybody was glad to give
something; and, indeed, they all received as many presents as their
canoes could safely carry or tow on shore. Their tents, nine in number
were pitched on the main land, a little to the northward of Ooglit, at a
station they call _Ag-wis-se-=o-wik_, of which we had often heard
them speak at Igloolik. They now also pointed out to us Amitioke, at the
distance of four or five leagues to the southward and westward, which
proved to be the same piece of low land that we had taken for it in
first coming up this coast. The Esquimaux told us that a number of their
younger men were inland in pursuit of deer, and that the rest had
abundant supplies of walrus, which animals we saw in considerable
numbers about this place.

We were