. Round about the North pole . pe York, by the cape namedafter one of his directors, Sir Dudley Digges, and thesound named after another of his directors, Sir JohnWolstenholme; along Prudhoe Land, entering the NorthWater of the whalers, reaching Cape Alexander in77° 45, his farthest north; opening up and namingSmith Sound, after Sir Thomas Smith, another of hisdirectors, and Jones Sound, after Alderman Sir FrancisJones, another of the board, and Lancaster Sound,after Sir James Lancaster of the East India , coasting Ellesmere Land, North Devon, BylotIsland, and Baffin Land, he conti
. Round about the North pole . pe York, by the cape namedafter one of his directors, Sir Dudley Digges, and thesound named after another of his directors, Sir JohnWolstenholme; along Prudhoe Land, entering the NorthWater of the whalers, reaching Cape Alexander in77° 45, his farthest north; opening up and namingSmith Sound, after Sir Thomas Smith, another of hisdirectors, and Jones Sound, after Alderman Sir FrancisJones, another of the board, and Lancaster Sound,after Sir James Lancaster of the East India , coasting Ellesmere Land, North Devon, BylotIsland, and Baffin Land, he continued his voyage fromthe north on his way home. A good piece of work:the discoveries so many and unexpected that peopleceased to believe in them, geographers going so far &sto erase his bay from their maps until, two hundredyears afterwards, Ross and Parry sailed over the landof the unbelievers and confirmed Baffins work in everydetail—and Ross, in his best mountain-finding manner,reported no thoroughfare at Smith DR. E. K. KANE To face page 234 CHAPTER XIISMITH SOUND Captain Inglefield—Dr. Kane—The open Polar Sea—Hans Hendrik theGreenlander—Kalutunah the Eskimo—An Eskimo bear-hunt—A lessonin catching auks—Dr. Hayes—His journey over the glacier—TyndallGlacier—Captain C. F. Hall—Joe and Hannah—Voyage of the Polaris—Drift of the Polaris—The voyage on the ice-floe—The British GovernmentExpedition of 1875—The Alert and Discovery—The cairn on WashingtonIrving Island—Discovery Harbour—How the Alert got into safety atFloeberg Beach—Low temperatures—Nares on sledging—Description ofthe sledges and their burden—Markham starts for the Pole—Reaches83d 20 26—Outbreak of scurvy—Parrs walk—Aldrichs journey west——Beaumonts journey east—The perilous homeward voyage. LADY FRANKLIN, who incidentally did so much-/ for Arctic discovery, sent out the Isabel in 1852under Commander, afterwards Sir, Edward AugustusInglefield to searc
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