A voyage towards the North pole undertaken by His Majesty's command, 1773 . tting the fhips, and to have the fulleft con-fidence in their officers. The boats could not with thegreateft diligence be got to the water fide before the four-teenth ; if the fituation of the fiiips did not alter by thattime, I fliould not be juftified in flaying longer by the mean time I refolved to cany on both attemptstogether, moving the boats conftantly, but without omit-ting any opportunity of getting the (hips through. 8 th. At half pafl: four, fent two pilots with three mento fee the ftate of the ice t
A voyage towards the North pole undertaken by His Majesty's command, 1773 . tting the fhips, and to have the fulleft con-fidence in their officers. The boats could not with thegreateft diligence be got to the water fide before the four-teenth ; if the fituation of the fiiips did not alter by thattime, I fliould not be juftified in flaying longer by the mean time I refolved to cany on both attemptstogether, moving the boats conftantly, but without omit-ting any opportunity of getting the (hips through. 8 th. At half pafl: four, fent two pilots with three mento fee the ftate of the ice to the Weftward, that T mightjudge of the probability of getting the fhips out. At ninethey returned,, and reported the ice to be very heavy andclofe, confifting chiefly of large fields. Between nine andten this morning, 1 fet out with the people, and got theLaunch above three miles. The weather being foggy, andthe people having worked hard, I thought it befl to re-turn on board between fix and feven. The fliips hadin the mean time moved fomething through the ice, and the.
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