Preparations for exploring the coast of Melville Peninsula--Outfit--Leave Fort Hope--Pass over numerous lakes--Guide at fault--Dease Peninsula--Arrive at the sea--Fatigue party sent back to Fort Hope--Barrier of ice--Lefroy Bay--Large island named after the Prince of Wales--Detained by stormy weather--Short allowance--Cape Lady Simpson--Selkirk Bay--Snow knee-deep--Capes Finlayson and Sibbald--Deer shot--A cooking scene--Favourite native relish--Again stopped by stormy weather--Cape M'Loughlin--Two men left to hunt and fish--Cape Richardson--Chain of islands--Garry Bay--Prince Albert range of hills--Cape Arrowsmith--Coast much indented--Baker Bay--Provisions fail--Proceed with one man--Cape Crozier--Parry Bay--Cape Ellice, the farthest point seen--Take possession--Commence our return--No provisions procured by the men left behind--Short commons--Flock of cranes--Snow-blindness--Arrive at Repulse Bay 137 CHAPTER VIII. Occurrences at Fort Hope during the absence of the exploring party--Remove from winter quarters to tents--Sun seen at midnight--Build an oven and bake bread--Esquimaux method of catching seals--A concert--Lateness of the summer--A native salmon-wear--Salmon spear--Boulders on the surface of the ice--Visited by a native from the Ooglit Islands--His report of occurrences at Igloolik--Indolence of the natives--Ice breaking up--Halkett's air-boat--A storm--The ice dispersed--Prepare for sea 165 CHAPTER IX. Voyage from Repulse Bay to York Factory 178 APPENDIX. List of Mammalia 199 ---- Birds 201 ---- Fishes 204 ---- Plants 205 Specimens of Rocks 215 Dip of the needle and force of magnetic attraction at various stations along the west shore of Hudson's Bay, and at Fort Hope, Repulse Bay 218 Abstract of Meteorological Journal from September, 1846, to August, 1847 224 Figures and Letters used for denoting the state of the weather, &c. 248 [Illustration: _The Discoveries made by The Hon^{ble}. Hudson's Bay C^{os}. Arctic Expeditions, between the Years 1837 & 1847. are Coloured Red_ NORTHERN AMERICA DISCOVERIES of the HON^{BLE}. HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY'S ARCTIC EXPEDITION in 1838 & 1839. _John Arrowsmith_] NARRATIVE, ETC. ETC. CHAPTER I.