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cape, and under an iceberg that anchored itself between 

 them and the gale. 



The point to which they were thus unceremoniously 

 driven was ten miles nearer the pole than Godsend 

 Ledge ; and on the 22d, the storm having abated, the 

 men were harnessed to the tow-lines, and they began to 

 track along the ice-belt off the coast, warping also at 





TRACKING ALONG THE ICE-BELT. 



times, but with so little effect that, on the 29th, Dr. 

 Kane rushed on ahead with a small boating-party for a 

 personal inspection of the coast. After twenty-four 

 hours' toil, the boat had to be exchanged for a sledge, 

 with which they also got on but slowly, passing Glacier 

 Bay, Mary Minturn River, the largest known ill 

 North Greenland, being about three fourths of a mile 

 wide at its mouth Capes Thackeray and Francis 

 Hawkes, to Cape George Russell, from whence could be 

 seen the great glacier of Humboldt, Cape Jackson on 

 the one side, and Cape Barrow on the other, and be- 

 tween them a solid sea of ice. 







The gallant captain returned satisfied that he had 

 seen no place combining so many of the requisites of a 

 good winter harbor as the bay in which he had left the 

 Advance. So he gave the orders to warp in between 

 two islands. They found seven fathom soundings, and 



