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London, England, 1850-01-24 00:00:00

friendly. They all had their bows and quivers with

them. -,
Finding a line drawn on the sand so nada' as a
bouneary for their approach at Wainwright's Inlet, I
again had recourse to it, which they respec!e I as before.
I made them all presents, and returned to the ship in
the evening just befjre she was enveloped in a

dense fog.
August 24—Weighed, with a light air from the north-
east, and clear (hot) weather. Running for Point Hope,
where I intended to build another mark, if the Plover
had not already done it.
At one, r.m., sighted off the low land the Nancy
Dawson yacht and the Owen. Mr. Shedden came on
beard, accompanied by Mr. Martin, the second master
of the Plover, who had been sent back by Mr. Pullen
in charge of the two large boats of the expedition. I
learned from Mr. Martin that he had arrived at the
anchorage off Point Hope on the 19th inst., in company
with the yacht, and was preparing to start again north
in the Owen, sending the other boats back in charge cf

the yacht to Kotzebue Sound.
The boats, after leaving the Plover on the 25th of
July, were detained a day or two by the ice bEfore
reaching Point Barrow; found the natives most friendly,
and anxious to assist them in every way. The boats
were accompanied as far as Point Barrow by the yacht.
This vessel had many escapes. She was pressed on shore
once; ran on shore on another occasion to the eastward
of Point Barrow, and was only got off by the assistance
of the natives, who manned her capstan and hove with

great goodwill.
On another occasion she parted her bower cable
from the pressure of the ice that came suddenly down
on her, and bal a narrow escape of a severe Equecx?.
She recovered htr anchor and cable. Mr. Sbedden
erected a mark in Refuge Inlet, where he also
intntded to have left some provisions, but the natives
were too numerous to do so without their knowing.
He found another small inlet a short distance south
of R. fuge Inlet, in latitude 71 deg. 5 min., where be
turnel from his own store a large cask of flour and a
large calk of preserved meats. At Refuge Inlet he left
information as to the position of these casks.
Nothing could exceed the kindness cf Mr. Sbedden
to those in the boats, in supplying them with every-
thing his vessel could afford, and in following" them
with considerable risk. His crer were, unfortunately,
a most disalfeced set. He had too many of them, for so

small a vessel.
Tne b -E,:ts all reached Dease's Inlet on the evenirg
cf the 3d, but- were detained until the sth, by strong

Their time, however, was well employed in stowing
their boats and a baider Mr. Pullen bought ut Point Bar-
ro.v. They. were fairly away on the afternoon of the
sth, having with them 100 days' provisions, besides ten
cases of polnruican ; this little expedition then cen•
sis'cd of t twenty- even ft et whale, brats, and ono
native_ baider, manned wit.; fiurt•.:en perzons in all.
I have Lent t ieir Lrxdships' espies of Mr. Pullen's
r.s b)th pnblic ald private, that have to n rece'ved
depait•ire. From Vacm they will gain more
inforrrtivion than I could afford. .

Through these letters their Lordships will also see
n4t, a noble and proper spirit Lieutenant Pullen
un'h his vt:.yag?, being neserthWss fully a'ivo to
its eing'crs and expcsures
I a.ps eftite sure tlyir Lordships, when they appointed
Mr. Puikr., were fully a'afare of his character and cara-
bilities. I trust, howeircr, that tha.,y trill not consi'der
the eollowirg comments out of pluce:—
I don't lttaxv nay ortieer capnWe t f conducting
with sucte s s-;cia an txpatliticr:. Ile p;&;es.ses health,
great lndly st-ength and endurance, ability and great
deci-i of eliatraccer. Coupled all these go -d
point,s in their loader, the beats hal an open sea, and a
;air s) that I hate no sopreitension.s as to their
reachic;r: one-of the Hudson's Bay establishments on the
Mackenzie, early in the :I,llliOP, though not sufficiently
t tcturn to Ko.zehue Ss.und this year.
Dcase and Simpson certainly made their voysge from
etc Ilticket z'e to Point Burrow end back, in one seasin,
bat then :hey trzytlled west, at the commencement of
the seaLor ; and returned to the east,ard at its close,
whtn the witAs prevail( d from the we.ts-ard. Our boats
would harnti return to the vrestvvard at the latter part
of the season, which I believe to be impossible from the
pseking of the ice, the keenness of the westerly winds
and Currants.
Pul:e,fs letter says pre is plainly, that he. will

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rot return ; he will therefore he awaiting their Lord-
thir,' instructions at York F4etory.
Augu-it 24—We hove to off Point Hope towards
midn'ght in Teo,' dirty w: ri-her.
Atigcst 25—In the morning stord in ; sent a boat to
the yacht to tell her I thought she was in a very dan-
gerous ty2chorage, with the wind as is then 1%23 from
fhe IS.S.E. Ordered the two longer boats out imrne-
dia.aly. Finding the weather still more threatening, I
hoist!,cl the Plover's boat in, bein7, handier for nay
tackles 1111. n a Owen, determining to go myself north
in ;he ship.
Provisioned the Owen, and d3spatch,:d her company
w=t's the yacht to lio:zebuo Sound, supposing the Plover
to have gore there. I desired Commander Moore to
employ her in the exarninati, a of the Buckland river.
We had a calm in the afternoon with h,avy rollers
(wOlput any apparent cause). We fortunately were
two or three miles off the lacd. Had the yacht and
boats remained at their anchorage they certainly would
have been driven on shore, without my being able to
assist them.
A fresh breeze from the southward released us from
this unp!vasant position. We just scraped clear of the
shoal off Point 11.,pe, and born up nuitherly, parting
ooMiany with yacht and Owen.
4u rat 27—,on.tinued to run to the northward until
six A.M. a this day, had an, increasing hreez.). from
south south, ait, with frt. quer t snow-storms. e. lo
fur fine. weathe-. By nine -t.m. we were re Jut oi to a
close reefed rcaintopseil and staysail, having washed
away ono (Sour quarter gory. I have never seen so
hollow or distressing a sea for a ship—no small-decked
boat could hare lived in it. It seas, then fore, .f ,rtunate
thEtt I had arrived at Point Hope before the ,Owen
e 1 again north, and that I had decided on sending
her to Kot&: bue &Auld.
I kept the ship heading in f,,r the land, hoping that
this ga'-, like our fJrmer ones, would le of short dura-
tion, and that I might again look into Wainright's
Inlet. The only alterstior, however, in the weather
was, t.tat the gale from south south-east ceased in about
twelve hours, and shifted to north-west and weA, from
which point; it blew gales, bringing with them ex-
cessive cold weather, with strong squalls and heavy falls

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of snow.
August 27—In standing to the westward we ?ob-
served at 10 Pas. the ice blink was very strong from
north to north-west, about 15 toilet.; from us; wore,
hoping to weather Blossom shoal at least 40 miles.
August 28—Wore in 11 fathoms on the shoal this
morning, having nine fathoms bcf bre we trimmed. Had
a current north 84 degrees east setting 36 miles in 18
hours. Wind weft.
Finding it impossible to remain on the coast, I began
to, work off with all the sail the ship 'would carry. 141 y
crew were necessarily much exposed in making and
shortening sail, and suffered a good deal from colds and
rheumatism. I was also shorthanled, having been
obliged to send ten mei to the Plover, besides those I
discharge &at 'Oahu.
'an the morning of the 31st I again stood in for Point
Mope, but finding no landing there, 1 bore up for Rot
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z Sound.

Ft rd Cato Itrtnentern on the morning of the I,t in
a j;ale froth the north-west; under third reefs of topsails
land reefed COU/SQI.

Before vszing Iloihim Sound we were under sail,
trd aLchored < if Cl a eissio Mend ct 9 30 r
`Found
the. Plover and the yacht. et anchor under
Choris peninsula. The Owcii was absent with Ceptain
Itlo,re up the Buckland river, but expected daily her
return on the 30.
After completing cur water from the springs in Cha-
mis,io, my people were employed assisting the Plo-er in
preparing her winter quarters. 'The boatswain with a
piny and tie carpenters building a hens,.
Commander Moore having determined to winter in
Cie Sound, and being very desifous to visit some chiefs
who were rtporet:l to live ins considerable place up the
river, I determined to go there with a party sufficient to
secure respect . from those people, although Captain
Moore told me they were most friendly. Accordingly,
oh the 9th, I started with the Owen, the Plover's decked
boat, Herald cutter, and two gigs, their crews and seve-
rii officers.
The first night, we bivouacked at Elephant Point, and
had the whole crew roaming over the ice cliffs for fossils,
but could not find one of any importance.
' The second night we stayed at a large native village
if 22 tents and about 150 people. We pitched our tents
close to one extreme of them, had our coppers, pots,
kettles, axes, saws, &c., on shore, but not an article was
lost, although at times we bad a third of their numbers
about us. Even in their way they were not troublesome,
when we told them we wished them to go away.
fine men, but disfigured in appear-
They were all very
ance by the labrets they all wear. They brought us
wood and water, gave us fish and venison, and offered us
whal.s' blubber and seals' flesh.
' Leaving a few of .the men to take care of the boats,
the rest came on shore for an hour. The natives were
highly amused, and joined in their sports of leaping and
running.
The sportsmen were always accompanied by some of
them ; they were greatly surprised to see some of the
young officers killing the birds right and left.
The moment the boats started (until we got far up)
4ie were precededby their little keacks, sounding with
their paddles to the channel. We had pilots in each of
tl e large boats,' who' remained constantly with us, and
who experienced great concern when they unavoidably
isot us on shore.
I have been the more 'particular in my remarks re-
lative to these interesting people, because their be-
haviour on the visits of Captain Beechey and myself
have been so very opposite. It may be accounted for
in this way: we had an interpreter who could speak with
them, through which they found out what our object was
i o going amongst them.
The Russian s. ttlernent hac also, I , consider, been
very instrumental in causing thisso alteration in their con-
duct. We found many of them with shirts, handker-
chiefs of gaudy colours, cottons printed with walrug
reindeer, and all the other animals that they are in the
habit of catching and representing in ivory, knives, and
kettles—all these came from the Russian settlement.
' They were latterly very anxious to obtain muskets, and
evinced no fear in discharging thew.
September 11-We arrived with the boats at a part
Of Cole riv, r, 30 wiles up, perfectly barred across with
heavy rock, over which there was a fall of about thirteen
inches. Here the heavy boats se ere stopped, but by
unledi.g the tighter ones, we were enabled to haul them
over.
Wishing myself to return to the ship, and Commander
51eore being still anxious to go on directed Mr. M. A.
Quire (-it rljor. Herald)H lieutenant to the to accompany
my gig. Vur the pnreer.e cif 'mutual protection
(4eavingtne of -thiflarger boats below the fall to wait
eir return), I directed him to mahe a tracing 0 the