g erect; and a quantity of spare
slabs lying in different places, gave the ground an appearance somewhat
resembling that of a statuary's yard. Large stores of walrus' and seals'
flesh, principally the former, were deposited under heaps of stones all
about the beach, and, as we afterward found, in various other parts of
the island, which showed that they had made some provision for the
winter, though, with their enormous consumption of food, it proved a
very inadequate one.

Leaving the Fury at seven A.M. on the 26th, and being favoured by a
fresh easterly breeze, we soon cleared the southwest point of Igloolik;
and, having passed the little island of _Oogli=aghioo_, immediately
perceived to the W.N.W. of us a group of islands, so exactly answering
the description of Coxe's Group, both in character and situation, as to
leave no doubt of our being exactly in Captain Lyon's former track.
Being still favoured by the wind and by the total absence of fixed ice,
we reached the islands at eleven A.M., and, after sailing a mile or two
among them, came at once in sight of two bluffs, forming the passage
pointed out by Toolemak, and then supposed to be called _Khemig_. The
land to the north, called by the Esquimaux _Khiadlaghioo_, was now found
to be, as we had before conjectured, the southern shore of Richards's
Bay. The land on our left or to the southward proved an island, five
miles and a quarter in length, of the same bold and rugged character as
the rest of this numerous group, and by far the largest of them all. To
prevent the necessity of reverting to this subject, I may at once add,
that two or three months after this, on laying before Ewerat our own
chart of the whole coast, in order to obtain the Esquimaux names, we
discovered that the island just mentioned was called _Khemig_, by which
name Ormond Island was _also_ distinguished; the word expressing, in the
Esquimaux language, anything stopping up the mouth of a place or
narrowing its entrance, and applied also more familiarly to the cork of
a bottle, or a plug of any kind. And thus were reconciled all the
apparent inconsistencies respecting this hitherto mysterious and
incomprehensible word, which had occasioned us so much perplexity.

At daylight on the 27th we crossed to a small island at the margin of
the ice; and leaving the boat there in charge of the coxswain and two of
the crew, Mr. Ross and myself, accompanied by the other two, set out
across the ice at seven