CHAPTER IX.

Mr. Fisher's Party a short Distance from this Settlement.--Next Day left for another Settlement.--Our Men arriving in small Companies.--Health improving.--Cross the River.--No Signs of Water.--Settlement.--Ham.--The Wreck of a New Bedford Ship.--When lost, and the Circumstances.--Travel to another Settlement.--The head Man a savage Fellow.--Traveling towards East Cape.--Seaboard Route.--Natives kind.--Begging by the Way.--The Whale Boat.--The Broadside of a Ship.--Ship in the Ice.--Drift Stuff.--Sun's Reflection.--Sore Eyes.-- Snow Blindness.--The Blind led with Strings.--Partial Remedy. --East Cape reached.--Cordially received by the Natives. 169