The way was broad and open, due west, a most prosperous beginning for a North-West Passage.

If this continued, he would soon reach Behring Strait.

A broad channel to the right, directed, that is to say, southward, he entered on the Prince of Wales's birthday, and so called it the "Prince Regent's Inlet." After exploring this for some miles, he turned back to resume his western course, for still there was a broad strait leading westward.

This second part of Lancaster Sound he called after the Secretary of the Admiralty who had so indefatigably laboured to promote the expeditions, Barrow's Strait.

Then he came to a channel, turning to the right or northward, and he named that Wellington Channel.