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M A M M A L S OF N O R T H E R N C A N A D A 235
John F r a n k l i n . * We then and there distinctly heard one
or two large whales spouting at a great rate i n a narrow
lane of water, which was clearly visible at some distance
amid t i e immense field of unbroken ice. In the end of
June, IS64, he had a similar experience i n the same quarter.
Since the advent of American whalers, however, into these
narrow seas, about twenty years ago, whales are now said
to be rapidly diminishing i n numbers to the westward of the
Mackenzie, and this w i l l soon be the ease i n the narrow eastern
seas of the land- locked portions of the Canadian polar ocean.
I n several suitable spots on the south shores of F r a n k l in
Bay and Langton Harbour we saw some ribs, crown, and
other large bones of the whale, and certain other remains,
including a human skull and ancient Eskimo huts or winter
houses. With the exception of two families, w i t h one large
boat, or umiak, and three kayaks, or canoes, who had been
directed to come there from Liverpool Bay to meet and
assist us collecting birds, eggs, etc., and one or two young
men who accompanied us from F o r t Anderson, we never saw
any other representatives of this intelligent and interesting
race i n that quarter.
I think the Greenland whale has been observed by a l l of
the Arctic expeditions. Markham relates that the Nares
ships of 1875- 76 witnessed numerous examples of the bottle-nosed
species near Davis Strait, but as they do not yield
much o i l they are not i n much request; also one dead floati
n g Greenland whale, worth £ 1,000. One of Greely's party
found a r i b of the latter as far north as latitude 82° 33'.
Upon the east side of Port Kennedy the bones of whales
were found i n two places, a mile apart; the lowest was 180
feet and the highest 300 feet above the sea. They were
more or less buried upon a flat patch of rather r i c h earth and
nearly a mile inland.
• He had previously— in June, 1S5T— obtained a distant view, and
but for a prevailing blizzard would have had an equally close view
of Liverpool Bay in January, 1S59.
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| OCR | M A M M A L S OF N O R T H E R N C A N A D A 235 John F r a n k l i n . * We then and there distinctly heard one or two large whales spouting at a great rate i n a narrow lane of water, which was clearly visible at some distance amid t i e immense field of unbroken ice. In the end of June, IS64, he had a similar experience i n the same quarter. Since the advent of American whalers, however, into these narrow seas, about twenty years ago, whales are now said to be rapidly diminishing i n numbers to the westward of the Mackenzie, and this w i l l soon be the ease i n the narrow eastern seas of the land- locked portions of the Canadian polar ocean. I n several suitable spots on the south shores of F r a n k l in Bay and Langton Harbour we saw some ribs, crown, and other large bones of the whale, and certain other remains, including a human skull and ancient Eskimo huts or winter houses. With the exception of two families, w i t h one large boat, or umiak, and three kayaks, or canoes, who had been directed to come there from Liverpool Bay to meet and assist us collecting birds, eggs, etc., and one or two young men who accompanied us from F o r t Anderson, we never saw any other representatives of this intelligent and interesting race i n that quarter. I think the Greenland whale has been observed by a l l of the Arctic expeditions. Markham relates that the Nares ships of 1875- 76 witnessed numerous examples of the bottle-nosed species near Davis Strait, but as they do not yield much o i l they are not i n much request; also one dead floati n g Greenland whale, worth £ 1,000. One of Greely's party found a r i b of the latter as far north as latitude 82° 33'. Upon the east side of Port Kennedy the bones of whales were found i n two places, a mile apart; the lowest was 180 feet and the highest 300 feet above the sea. They were more or less buried upon a flat patch of rather r i c h earth and nearly a mile inland. • He had previously— in June, 1S5T— obtained a distant view, and but for a prevailing blizzard would have had an equally close view of Liverpool Bay in January, 1S59. |
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