. The frozen zone and its explorers; a comprehensive record of voyages, travels, discoveries, adventures and whale-fishing in the Arctic regions for one thousand years . MORTON AND HANS ENTERING THE MORTON AND HANS LEAVING KENNEDY CHANNEL. ATTEMPT TO REACH BEECHY ISLAND. 555 hardly one-half in efficiency of what we count innumber. Besides, how can I desert the brig whilethere is still a chance of saving her ? There is no useof noting ^ro3 and cons: my mind is made up; I willnot do it. About the middle of July, Dr. Kane, with ^yq^ vol-unteers, started southward hoping to be able to re
. The frozen zone and its explorers; a comprehensive record of voyages, travels, discoveries, adventures and whale-fishing in the Arctic regions for one thousand years . MORTON AND HANS ENTERING THE MORTON AND HANS LEAVING KENNEDY CHANNEL. ATTEMPT TO REACH BEECHY ISLAND. 555 hardly one-half in efficiency of what we count innumber. Besides, how can I desert the brig whilethere is still a chance of saving her ? There is no useof noting ^ro3 and cons: my mind is made up; I willnot do it. About the middle of July, Dr. Kane, with ^yq^ vol-unteers, started southward hoping to be able to reachBeechy Island, and to communicate with some one ofthe English ships searching for Franklin. The trip wasmade in a boat which was dragged to the water, andwas exciting and dangerous. On the 31st of July,when within ten miles of Cape Parry, they were stop-ped by a solid mass of ice which lay directly acrosstheir path. On climbing an iceberg they found thatall within a radius of thirty miles was an impenetrablesea of ice. Further attempts to proceed being useless,they returned to the brig, halting at Northumberlandand Littleton Islands, where they feasted on auks andscurvy grass. Littleton Island will
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