Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . than a thousand milesof ice and water. For the first eight days,the party were occupied in dragging theirboat—a whale-boat, twenty-four feet longand five and a half feet beam—from thebrig to
Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . than a thousand milesof ice and water. For the first eight days,the party were occupied in dragging theirboat—a whale-boat, twenty-four feet longand five and a half feet beam—from thebrig to the open water, a distance of aboutfifteen miles. Having reached the openwater, they set out upon their dangerousnavigation. On the second daj^, thej raninto the pack, a dangerous position evenfor full-sized ships; their only resourceto drag the boat and its cargo on to thelargest floe they could find, and wait untilit was imbedded in a field of ice whichwas likely, for a time at least, to remainmoderately steady. Whilst entangled inthe pack, they ajjproached the place whereDoctor Kane had left an iron life-boat onhis passage out. Three of the party, ofwhom Doctor Hayes was one, set off acrossthe ice to reach the life-boat, and havingfound it in a little cove on a small island,passed a most dreary night there. DoctorHayes and one of the men running up anddown all night long to avoid VIEW OF THE AKi-TIC RElilONS. wonderful volume, An Arctic Boat Jour-ney, it appears to have been one of themost extraordinary exhibitions of hardi-hood and endurance ever recorded. Starting with stores calculated to lastfor four or five weeks, the journey before And now, barely outliving a terrible stormwhich overtook them, they reached a pointabout sixteen miles south of Cape Parry,and probably more than two hundredsouth of Rensselaer Harbor, where wereDoctor Kane and the brig. Difficulties 540 OUR FIRST CENTURY.—177G-1876. beset them jt every step. For , onone occasion,
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