. Adventures of two youths in the open Polar Sea. ofDaviss Strait and Baffins Bay have found themselves opposed by thecurrents flowing down to the south. Frequently, when their ships areenclosed in the ice, they have been carried slowly but steadily along over RECOVERY OF THE RESOLUTE. 33 the very track by which they ascended to the North, and without anypower to resist the movement. There are many instances of this on record. Captain Tyson, on hisescape from the Polaris in October, 1872, drifted south nearly two thou-sand miles on a large floe of ice, from which he was rescued by thesteamer T
. Adventures of two youths in the open Polar Sea. ofDaviss Strait and Baffins Bay have found themselves opposed by thecurrents flowing down to the south. Frequently, when their ships areenclosed in the ice, they have been carried slowly but steadily along over RECOVERY OF THE RESOLUTE. 33 the very track by which they ascended to the North, and without anypower to resist the movement. There are many instances of this on record. Captain Tyson, on hisescape from the Polaris in October, 1872, drifted south nearly two thou-sand miles on a large floe of ice, from which he was rescued by thesteamer Tigress. In 1827 Captain Parry made a sledge journey overthe ice, but found that he drifted to the south nearly as fast as his sledgescarried him northward. Captain MClintock, in the steam-yacht Fox, hada similar experience: the Fox was locked in the ice in Baffins Bay,August 17, 1857, and was carried back on her course until April 25thof the following year; when released she had drifted one thousand threehundred and ninety-five miles THE CABIN OF THE RESOLUTE. In 1851 Sir Edward Belcher, with a fleet of five ships, was caught inthe ice near Beechy Island; the ships were abandoned, and given up astotally lost. Sixteen months later one of the officers of the whaling shipGeorge Henry saw a vessel in the ice near the west shore of Baffins Bay,in latitude 67°. Making his way to her with some difficulty, he found shewas the Resolute, one of Sir Edward Belchers abandoned ships, perfectly 3 34 THE VOYAGE OF THE VIVIAN. sound and sea-worthy, though locked fast in the ice. The cabin wasmouldy and musty in appearance, but everything was in order, showingthat she had not been visited by the natives. Some decanters of winewere on the table, and the discoverers helped themselves to the beveragewhich they had fairly earned by their long tramp over the ice. The prize was a valuable one, and the captain of the George Henrydecided to go home with her as soon as he could get her free
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