Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 2

CHAPTER X.

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Departure from Winter Island.--Meet with some Esquimaux travelling to the Northward.--Obstruction and Danger from the Ice and Tides.--Discovery of the Barrow River, and its Fall.--Favourable Passage to the Northward.--Arrival off the Strait of the Fury and Hecla.--Progress opposed by a fixed barrier of Ice.--Communicate with the Natives of Igloolik.--Unsuccessful Attempt to get between the Ice and the Land.--Land upon the Calthorpe Islands.--The Fury drifted by the Ice between two Islands.--Account of a Journey performed in Sledges up an Inlet to the Westward.