. 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. 256 RECENT JJORTH-WEST VOYAGES. government at home, however, were not willing to stop short in their spirited career. ITie western ex- tremity of Melville Island, and the strait of the Fury and Hecla, appeared to be both so blocked up as to afford little hope; but Prince Regent's Inlet, when explored during Captain Parry's voyage, had pre- sented, indeed, an icy barrier, 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. 256 RECENT JJORTH-WEST VOYAGES. government at home, however, were not willing to stop short in their spirited career. ITie western ex- tremity of Melville Island, and the strait of the Fury and Hecla, appeared to be both so blocked up as to afford little hope; but Prince Regent's Inlet, when explored during Captain Parry's voyage, had pre- sented, indeed, an icy barrier, but such as had so often given way suddenly and almost instantaneously, that its existence early in the season could not be con- sidered very alarming. A passage through this channel would bring the ships to the great sea bounding the northern coast of America, that had been seen from the strait of the Fury and Hecla, and along which Captain Franklin had partly sailed, and by which there was the fairest hope of reaching, by the most direct route, the waters of the great Pacific. To follow up these views. Captain Parry was again fitted out in the Hecla; while, in the accidental ab- sence of Captain Lyon, the Fury was intrusted to Lieutenant, now Captain Hoppner, who had taken an active part in the operations of the last voyage. The expedition set sail from Northfleet en the 19th May, 1824, and was in Davis's Strait by the middle of June. As the season, however, chanced to be pe- culiarly rigorous, it was not till the iOth of Septem- ber, that, after repeated repulses and severe straining, they caught a view of the bold and magnificent shores of Lancaster Sound, in which a few solitary icebergs were floating. After this they thought themselves fortunate, when, by pushing their way through many miles of newly-fotmed ice, they reached Port Bowen in time to make it their winter- quarters. The provision made during this winter for the physical well-being of the expedition was still mo
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