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the 20th they were off Cape Lisburn ; and on the 25th, 

 after having passed Icy Point, they despatched a boat 

 expedition, under Lieut. Pullen. 



This boat expedition was designed to connect the 

 proceedings of the present voyage with those of the 

 overland expedition under Sir John Richardson, and to 

 institute search and provide succor for the missing 

 adventurers on the likeliest part of the coast and main- 

 land west of the Mackenzie River. It consisted of the 

 Herald's pinnace, decked over, and three other boats, 

 and comprised twenty-five men, and had nearly three 

 months' provisions for its own use, besides five cases of 

 pemmican for the use of Sir John Franklin's party. But 

 it was accompanied also by Mr. Shedden in his yacht. 

 It was directed, after proceeding a certain distance along 

 the coast in-shore, to return to a rendezvous with the 

 Plover at Chamisso Island, but at the same time to des- 

 patch from its furthest point a detachment in two whale- 

 boats, well provisioned and equipped, to extend tht 

 search to the mouth of the Mackenzie River, and then to 

 ascend that river, and proceed homeward by Fort Hope 

 and York Factory, in the summer of 1850. 



The Herald and the Plover, in the mean while, bore 

 away to the north, and on the 26th, in latitude 71 5' 

 north, reached the heavily-packed ice. They sailed 

 sometimes along the edge of this, and sometimes 

 through streams and among floes, till the 28th, when 

 they could proceed no further, on account of the per- 

 fect impenetrableness of the pack. They were then in 

 latitude 72 C 51' north, and longitude 163 48' west. 

 The ice, as far as it could be seen from the mast-head, 

 trended away west-south-westward ; yet, while densely 

 compact for leagues distant, seemed to be broken by a 

 water-line in the northern horizon. On the 28th the 

 ships came again to the land, and the Herald bore 



