. Arctic explorations: the second Grinnell expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55. amp; CO., 20 N. FOURTH ST. BOSTON: PHILLIPS, S.^JIPSOX & CO., 13 AVIXTER STRICKT. NEW YORK: G. P. & CO., 321 r,RO.\DWAY. CINCINNATI: APPLEGATE & CO., 48 MAIN STREET. 1856. Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1856, by E. K. KANE, in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States for the EasternDistrict of Pennsylvania. STKREOTYPKn nT Jnilxsox 4nilLADELPIIIA. Publishers Advertisement, Si,Q Having jyurcJiased the stereotype plates of tlie First Grinnell Ex
. Arctic explorations: the second Grinnell expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55. amp; CO., 20 N. FOURTH ST. BOSTON: PHILLIPS, S.^JIPSOX & CO., 13 AVIXTER STRICKT. NEW YORK: G. P. & CO., 321 r,RO.\DWAY. CINCINNATI: APPLEGATE & CO., 48 MAIN STREET. 1856. Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1856, by E. K. KANE, in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States for the EasternDistrict of Pennsylvania. STKREOTYPKn nT Jnilxsox 4nilLADELPIIIA. Publishers Advertisement, Si,Q Having jyurcJiased the stereotype plates of tlie First Grinnell Expedition, hy Dr. Kane, we have improvedit hy the addition of many new illustrations, together witha fine steel portrait of Sir John Franldin, and a sketch ofhis life, extracted from Allihones forthcoming Dictionaryof Literature and Authors.^ We loill hereafter issue the volume in a style to corre- spond ivith the present loorh. CHILDS §• PETERSON. O- I Philadelphia, September, 1856. f\7 i \ .*/.„ V I- \ 9-ir H .„fS«* :1:t ri_ ^ - ,V. ^r ? I i- - : ,^.. PREFACE. This book is not a record of scientific inves-tigations. While engaged, under the orders of the NavyDepartment, in arranging and elaborating theresults of the late expedition to the Arctic seas,I have availed myself of the permission of theSecretary to connect together the passages ofmy journal that could have interest for thegeneral reader, and to publish them as a nar-rative of the adventures of my party. I haveattempted very little else. The engravings with which my very liberalpublishers have illustrated it, will certainlyadd greatly to any value the text may largely, and, in some cases exclu- 6 6 PREFACE. sively, indebted for their interest to the artisticsldll of Mr. Hamilton, they are, with scarcelyan exception, from sketches made on the spot. E. K. K. PUILADELPHIA, July 4, 1856. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. PAGE Organization—Equipment—St. Johns—Baffins Bay—Sounding
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