540 LADY FRANKLIN'S EXPEDITION. 



Franklin. After touching at Lievely and Waigat Strait, 

 the Fox reached Upernavik on the 6th of August, and 

 having obtained a supply of coal, thirty dogs, and an 

 Esquimaux driver, proceeded on her voyage. But oa 

 the 18th of August her progress was stopped by the ice 

 in Melville Bay, from which time up to the 25th of April, 

 1858, she remained drifting in the pack. While thua 

 beset she drifted up within twenty-four miles of Cape 

 York, then far tc the westward, and thence southward 

 from lat. 751 N. to 63- -in all 1194 geographical miles. 

 On the 28th of April she reached Holsteinborg, where 

 Capt. M'Clintock, not disheartened by the failure of the 

 first year's cruise, immediately made preparations to 

 renew the attempt. 



" On the 8th of May," says Capt. M'Clintock, in his 

 official report, " our voyage was recommenced. God- 

 haven and Upernavik having been visited, Melville 

 Bay was entered early in June, and we crossed to Cape 

 York by the 26th. Here some natives were communi- 

 cated with. They immediately recognized Mr. Peter- 

 sen, our interpreter, formerly known to them in the 

 Grinnell expedition under Dr. Kane. In reply to our 

 inquiries for the Esquimaux dog-driver Hans, left behind 

 from the Advance in 1855, they told us that he was 

 residing at Whale Sound. Had he been there, I would 

 most gladly have embarked him, as his longing to return 

 to South Greenland continues unabated. 



" It was not until the 27th of July that we reached 

 Pond's Inlet, owing to a most unusual prevalence of ice 

 in the northern portion of Baffin's Bay. Without steam 

 power we could have done nothing. Here only one old 

 woman and a boy were found, but they served to pilot 

 us up the inlet for twenty-five miles, when we arrived at 

 their village. For about a week we were in constant 

 communication with these friendly people. They com- 



