CHAPTER XIV 



FURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE SEARCHING EXPEDITIONS. SIR JOHN ROSS'S 



VOYAGE. RESULTS. CARRIER-PIGEONS. PENNY'S EXPEDITION. DR. 



SUTHERLAND'S SCIENTIFIC OBSERVATIONS. GLACIERS AND ICEBERGS. 



WINTER CLIMATE. ANECDOTES. ESQUIMAUX DOGS. USE OF SNOW. 



FIRST GRINNELL EXPEDITION. ADVENTURES IN THE ICE. WINTER 



IN THE ARCTIC OCEAN. DANGEROUS DRIFTING. BREAKING UP OF THB 



ICE. RETURN. 



HAYING sketched generally in the last chapter the prog- 

 ress of the vessels which cooperated, in 1850, in pros- 

 ecuting the search for Sir John Franklin from the direc- 

 tion of Baffin's Bay, we shall now take up each expedi- 

 tion separately, and present such further details as may 

 tend to add interest and completeness to our history of 

 their proceedings. 



Of the four vessels comprising the squadron of Com- 

 modore Austin, and also of the Prince Albert, we have 

 already related all that is important, concluding with 

 their safe return to England. 



Sir John Eoss, in the Felix discovery yacht, with her 

 tender, the Mary, after obtaining an Esquimaux inter- 

 preter at Holsteinborg, and calling at Whale Fish 

 Islands, proceeded northward through Waygat's Straits, 

 and overtook Commodore Austin's squadron on the llth 

 of August, 1850. Arrangements were made with that 

 officer for a combined examination of every part of the 

 eastern side of a north-west passage, in which it was 

 probable that the missing ships could be found. On the 



