Aim at searching for the missing grandfather, Sean Anderson decides to set off a trip to the island where the old man supposed to be lost. With the help of his stepfather, Sean has such an adventure and discovers several mysterious things.
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The closeness of the ice again obliging us to make fast on the3d, we soon after perceived a party of people with a sledge uponthe land-floe. I therefore sent Mr. Bushnan, with some of ourmen, to meet them and to bring them on board, being desirous ofascertaining whereabout, according to their geography, we nowwere. We found the party to consist, as we expected, of those whohad taken leave of us forty days before on their departure to thenorthward, and who now readily accompanied our people to theships; leaving only Togolat's idiot-boy by the sledge, tying himto a dog and the dog to the ice. As soon as they came under thebows, they halted in a line, and, according to their formerpromise, gave three cheers, which salutation a few of us on theforecastle did not fail to return. As soon as they got on boardthey expressed extreme joy at seeing us again, repeated each ofour names with great earnestness, and were, indeed, muchgratified by this unexpected encounter. Ewerat being now mountedon the plank which goes across the gunwales of our ships forconning them conveniently among the ice, explained, in a veryclear and pilot-like manner, that the island which we observed tolie off Cape Wilson was that marked by Iligliuk in one of hercharts, and there called Awlikteewik, pronounced by EweratOw-l=ittee-week. On asking how many days' journey it wasstill to Amitioke, they all agreed in saying ten; and back toWinter Island oon=o=oktoot (a great many), so that we hadgood reason to hope we were not far from the former place. I mayat once remark, however, that great caution is requisite injudging of the information these people give of the distancesfrom one place to another, as expressed by the number ofse=eniks (sleeps) or days' journeys, to which, in othercountries, a definite value is affixed. No two Esquimaux willgive the same account in this respect, though each is equallydesirous of furnishing correct information; for, besides theirdeficiency as arithmeticians, which renders the enumeration often a labour, and of fifteen almost an impossibility to many ofthem, each individual forms his idea of the distance according tothe season of the year, and, consequently, the mode of travellingin which his own journey has been performed. Instances of thiskind will be observed in the charts of the Esquimaux, in whichthey not only differ from each other in this respect, but thesame individual differs from himself at different times. It isonly, therefore, by a careful comparison of the various accounts,and by making allowances for the different circumstances underwhich the journeys have been made, that these apparentinconsistencies can be reconciled, and an approximation to thetruth obtained.
On the 14th I left the ship with Mr. Richards and four men,and furnished with provisions for ten days, intending, ifpossible, to reach the main land at a point where we couldoverlook the strait. In this we succeeded after a journey of fourdays, arriving on the morning of the 18th at the extreme northernpoint of a peninsula, overlooking the narrowest part of thedesired strait, which lay immediately below us in about an eastand west direction, being two miles in width, apparently verydeep, and with a tide or current of at least two knots, settingthe loose ice through to the eastward. Beyond us, to the west,the shores again separated to the distance of several leagues;and for more than three points of the compass, in that direction,no land could be seen to the utmost limits of a clear horizon,except one island six or seven miles distant. Over this we couldnot entertain a doubt of having discovered the Polar Sea; and,loaded as it was with ice, we already felt as if we were on thepoint of forcing our way through it along the northern shores ofAmerica.
Whatever doubts might at a distance have been entertainedrespecting the identity, or the contrary, of the place visited byCaptain Lyon with that subsequently discovered by myself, therecould be none on a nearer view; as, independently of the observedlatitude, Captain Lyon could not, on approaching the narrows,recognise a single feature of the land; our present channel beingevidently a much wider and more extensive one than that pointedout by Toolemak, on the journey. It became, therefore, a matterof interest, now that this point was settled and our progressagain stopped by an insuperable obstacle, to ascertain the extentand communication of the southern inlet; and, should it prove asecond strait, to watch the breaking up of the ice about itseastern entrance, that no favourable opportunity might be missedof pushing through it to the westward. I therefore determined todespatch three separate parties, to satisfy all doubts in thatquarter, as well as to gain every possible information as to thelength of the strait, and the extent of the fixed ice now moreimmediately before us.
We moved at six P.M. on the 4th, and soon came to a number oflakes from half a mile to two miles in length occurring in chainsof three or four together, round which we had to walk, at theexpense of much time and labour. At half past six, on gaining asight of the sea from the top of a hill, we immediatelyrecognised to the eastward the numerous islands of red granitedescribed by Captain Lyon; and now perceived, what had beforebeen surmised, that the south shore of Richards's Bay formed thenorthern coast of the inlet, up which his journey with theEsquimaux had been pursued. Our latitude, by account from noon,being now 69 28', we felt confident that a short walkdirectly to the south must bring us to any strait communicatingwith that inlet, and we therefore pushed on in confidentexpectation of being near our journey's end. At seven P.M.,leaving the men to pitch the tent in a sheltered valley, Mr.Richards and myself ascended the hill that rose beyond it, and,on reaching its summit, found ourselves overlooking a long andnarrow arm of the sea communicating with the inlet before seen tothe eastward, and appearing to extend several miles nearly in aneast and west direction, or parallel to the table-land beforedescribed, from which it is distant three or four miles. That thecreek we now overlooked was a part of the same arm of the seawhich Captain Lyon had visited, the latitude, the bearings ofIgloolik, which was now plainly visible, and the number andappearance of the Coxe Islands, which were too remarkable to bemistaken, all concurred in assuring us; and it only, therefore,remained for us to determine whether it would furnish a passagefor the ships. Having made all the remarks which the lateness ofthe evening would permit, we descended to the tent at dusk, beingdirected by a cheerful, blazing fire of the andromedatetragona, which, in its present dry state, served asexcellent fuel for warming our provisions.
Leaving the Fury at seven A.M. on the 26th, and being favouredby a fresh easterly breeze, we soon cleared the southwest pointof Igloolik; and, having passed the little island ofOogli=aghioo, immediately perceived to the W.N.W. of us agroup of islands, so exactly answering the description of Coxe'sGroup, both in character and situation, as to leave no doubt ofour being exactly in Captain Lyon's former track. Being stillfavoured by the wind and by the total absence of fixed ice, wereached the islands at eleven A.M., and, after sailing a mile ortwo among them, came at once in sight of two bluffs, forming thepassage pointed out by Toolemak, and then supposed to be calledKhemig. The land to the north, called by the EsquimauxKhiadlaghioo, was now found to be, as we had beforeconjectured, the southern shore of Richards's Bay. The land onour left or to the southward proved an island, five miles and aquarter in length, of the same bold and rugged character as therest of this numerous group, and by far the largest of them all.To prevent the necessity of reverting to this subject, I may atonce add, that two or three months after this, on laying beforeEwerat our own chart of the whole coast, in order to obtain theEsquimaux names, we discovered that the island just mentioned wascalled Khemig, by which name Ormond Island was alsodistinguished; the word expressing, in the Esquimaux language,anything stopping up the mouth of a place or narrowing itsentrance, and applied also more familiarly to the cork of abottle, or a plug of any kind. And thus were reconciled all theapparent inconsistencies respecting this hitherto mysterious andincomprehensible word, which had occasioned us so muchperplexity.
Some of our Winter Island friends had now arrived also, beingthe party who left us there towards the end of the preceding May,and whom we had afterward overtaken on their journey to thenorthward. They were certainly all very glad to see us again,and, throwing off the Esquimaux for a time, shook us heartily bythe hand, with every demonstration of sincere delight. Ewerat, inhis quiet, sensible way, which was always respectable, gave us acircumstantial account of every event of his journey. On hisarrival at Owlitteweek, near which island we overtook him,he had buried the greater part of his baggage under heaps ofstones, the ice no longer being fit for dragging the sledge upon.Here also he was happily eased of a still greater burden, by thedeath of his idiot boy, who thus escaped the miseries to which alonger life must, among these people, have inevitably exposedhim. As for that noisy little fellow, "John Bull"(Kooillitiuk), he employed almost the whole of his firstvisit in asking every one, by name, "How d'ye do, Mr. So and So?"a question which had obtained him great credit among our peopleat Winter Island. Being a very important little personage, healso took great pride in pointing out various contrivances onboard the ships, and explaining to the other Esquimaux theirdifferent uses, to which the latter did not fail to listen withall the attention due to so knowing an oracle. 2ff7e9595c
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