Great Americans and their noble deeds; containing the lives of almost fifty of our nation's heroes and heroines .. . us picture, the good schooner sailed on, toProven and to Upernavik, from whence she headed north to Tessuissak— the place where there is a bay. Six weeks from the time she left Bos-ton, the party, now larger by several natives, hunters, and Danish sailorstaken aboard at Greenland, entered Melville Bay in a thick soon they had to build their snow-houses, set up their stations, andmake the regular preparations for winter. In the spring they worked their way furth
Great Americans and their noble deeds; containing the lives of almost fifty of our nation's heroes and heroines .. . us picture, the good schooner sailed on, toProven and to Upernavik, from whence she headed north to Tessuissak— the place where there is a bay. Six weeks from the time she left Bos-ton, the party, now larger by several natives, hunters, and Danish sailorstaken aboard at Greenland, entered Melville Bay in a thick soon they had to build their snow-houses, set up their stations, andmake the regular preparations for winter. In the spring they worked their way further northward up SmithsSound. Then taking a companion and starting out on a sledge-journeyDr. Hayes went over about the same route he had followed before on oneof his journeys from the Advance. All the way he made careful observa-tions, especially to correct errors that he found in the charts made on thelast trip. Pushing up Kennedys Channel he finally got beyond the lim-its of the former discoveries, and reached the lower cape at the entrance toLady Franklin Bay. This was a point forty miles further than that. MARVELLOUS SCENE IN THE ARCTIC REGIONS. 235 288 HAYES AND HALL. attained by Dr. Kane on the opposite shore, when lie had explored theeast and Dr. Hayes the west shore of this channel—which they bothbelieved led to the Open Polar Sea. At this place—which he named CapeLieber—he unfurled several United States flags which had been given himto open at the most northerly point in his journey. He did not find a clear sea here; but the ice was thin and decayed,and he felt sure that open water lay beyond, though it was then impossi-ble for him to push any further North to prove it. After making a greatmany careful scientific observations, he started back to the schooner,which passed the early part of the summer in Hartstene Bay, while theparty spent most of the time in making discoveries round about them,watching the action of the tide and studying the habits of the Esquim
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