Discovery Ships.
"iis Majesty's Ship tecla. Davis's Strait; lat .9. 'N. lorpsg 54. %'., June 25. ic waS exceedingly fizvourable, 'Our passage across tbe Atlentic va xednlfvual being only a r'ortnight from the Orknys tO Cape Farewell; and we bave been enveloped in fog ever since, which has prevented our getting into the Whnale-fish Islands, whither Captain Parry proporcs to unload the transpOrt; and this evening the weather hatr become iore clear, and we see tbe islandts about 0 miles to windvard of us, sn thwat we may hope to be there to-mo.-row mom;ing. *'Whale-fish lands, June 29. " WVe arrived here, as I had anticipated, 03 Saturday morning, and hIave been since busily engaged in removing oar atores freun the transport, which wiU in adl probability leave us on Thursday morn- ing, and, as 1 atni going on an excursion to Disco, about 20 miles from this, I must fllibi nly letLers tO night. There is resident on this island a Danisti Governor, or merchant, and about 80 or .0 Et-.quimaux, or rather a mixed race of Danes and Esquimaux they are mostly Christiatis, and it was quite delsglltful to find the Holy Scriptures ationg thetn, and to tsee almost every one of these poor creatures enabled to read the blessed word in their own languag,e Thle hiuts of these people are, comparatively, clean and comuforLable: they possess a great nnany of the European corn. forts of life; and among the things that excited our astonishment was, their hanitg, in almost every Ant, a musical instrument, called * a usandolin very nmuch like aguitar, on which asl the Erquimaux women play v;-ry tolerably. The livernor's wife is from Copen- hgen, andi, ldjging by her pp,earance, the cli ate agree. vell Aith her, for her fiLt ruddy cheeks bespteak heialth. aty other nian for a hlusband, slre would seern a moesuvouns Inarge wan- ,but as the Goveirnor hap, pcs tube six feet four,and stout in propornon. he are tolerably well paired. 'We are to lhave the Goveinor and li.s wife, and a iittle girl, not their daugh er, but a child thev adopted and brought fronm Denmtark, about 1 I years of age. to dinc witn us to.day; tr.e latter is, I thik, the most interesting personage on the islands, being avery pretty lit1le girl, of' good tnanners, and able to play very sweetly on *he mandolin, and accompany it with a soft and pleasing voicc; she wzill be much deligihted to-day, as we shall have an abuntlant supply of beads, &c. to give her." DISCO VARY SHIPS.