A voyage towards the North pole undertaken by His Majesty's command, 1773 . o fea. I flood to theN W to make the ice, and found the main body juftwhere we left it. At three in the morning, with a goodbreeze Eafterly, we were flanding to the Weftward, be-tween the land and the ice, both in fight j the weather hazey. nth. Came to an anchor in the harbour of Smeerenberg,to refrefh the people after their fatigues. We foundhere four of the Dutch {hips, which we had left in theNorways when we failed from Vogel Sang, and uponwhich I had depended for carrying the people home incafe we had been obliged
A voyage towards the North pole undertaken by His Majesty's command, 1773 . o fea. I flood to theN W to make the ice, and found the main body juftwhere we left it. At three in the morning, with a goodbreeze Eafterly, we were flanding to the Weftward, be-tween the land and the ice, both in fight j the weather hazey. nth. Came to an anchor in the harbour of Smeerenberg,to refrefh the people after their fatigues. We foundhere four of the Dutch {hips, which we had left in theNorways when we failed from Vogel Sang, and uponwhich I had depended for carrying the people home incafe we had been obliged to quit the fhips. In this Soundthere is good anchorage in thirteen fathom, fandy bottom,not far from the fhore: it is well (heltered from all ifland clofe to which we lay is called AmflerdamIfland, the Wefternmofl point of which is HacluytsHead Land : here the Dutch ufed formerly to boil theirwhale-oil, ^nd the remains of fome conveniencies ereftedby them for that purpofe are ftill vifible. Once theyattempted to make an eftablifhment, and left fome people4 to.
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