. Narrative of discovery and adventure in the polar seas and regions [microform] : with illustrations of their climate, geology, and natural history, and an account of the whale-fishery. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. 258 RECENT NORTH-WEST VOYAGES. t.'!*;^. ( |1 i (t from the south, would open and disperse the masses collected and driven against them by the north wind. In this anxious and precarious state, they worked slowly on till the 1st August, when they reached the latitude of 72° 42', longitude 91° 50'. Here Captain Parry, from the Hecla, saw the Fury receive a most severe shock b
. Narrative of discovery and adventure in the polar seas and regions [microform] : with illustrations of their climate, geology, and natural history, and an account of the whale-fishery. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. 258 RECENT NORTH-WEST VOYAGES. t.'!*;^. ( |1 i (t from the south, would open and disperse the masses collected and driven against them by the north wind. In this anxious and precarious state, they worked slowly on till the 1st August, when they reached the latitude of 72° 42', longitude 91° 50'. Here Captain Parry, from the Hecla, saw the Fury receive a most severe shock by a large floe, that forced her against the grounded ice of the shore; and tidings soon came, that she had been very sharply nipped, and was ad- mitting water copiously. The commander trusted that this would prove as harmless as the many shocks which this vessel had already endured; that the water made its entry by means of the twisted position into which she had been thrown; and that, when she was relieved from pressure^ h°r leaks would close. But the next accounts were, that she could not be kept clear of water except by the action of four piunps, at which the whole crew, oflicers and men, were obliged to work. It became evident that the evils under which she laboured could only be dis- covered and remedied by the operation of heaving down, by which her position being reversed, the parts now under water would be exposed to view. This :- pedient required a harbour, and there was none at hand; however, something was formed, which resembled one, by connecting with anchors and bower-cables the grounded ice to the shore. Four days were spent in unlading the Fury of those ample stores with which she had been provided. The operation was interrupted, too, by a violent storm of snow ; while the external ice, being driven in, demolished, in a great measure, the slender bulwarks by which the vessel 'ViXS {f cured. Her holds were filled with water, and r /ery examinn^ion proved the
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