CHAPTER VII. 



YOTAGE. BEECHEY's EXPEDITION. FRANKLIN'S SECOND LA KB 



EXPEDITION. FORT FRANKLIN. WINTER AT GREAT BEAR LAKE. 



KMBAn*ATTON. SEPARATION Of THE PARTY. PROGRESS OF FRANK- 

 HIT'S mrraioN. ATTACK BY ESQUIMAUX. RETURN TO FORT FRANK- 

 LIN. ItivflARDSON's DIVISION. SECOND WINTER AT THE FORT. 



COXCURREXTLY with Parry's third voyage, three other 

 expeditions were undertaken, with the two-fold object 

 of making the north-west passage and of completing the 

 survey of the North American coast. The first, by 

 Captain Lyon, in the Griper, was to proceed by Hud- 

 son's Strait and Sir Thomas Rowe's Welcome to Re- 

 pulse Bay ; then to cross over Melville Isthmus, and 

 survey the coast of America as far as where Franklin 

 left off, at Point Turnagain. The vessel sailed in June, 

 1824, but, being totally unfit for the service, except in 

 the quality of strength, she was nearly wrecked on two 

 occasions in the Welcome, and all on board placed in 

 imminent peril of their lives ; and at last, Repulse Bay 

 being eighty miles distant, the enterprise was aban- 

 doned. 



The second expedition, in the Blossom, under the 

 command of Captain Beechey, was despatched in 1825, 

 to sail round Cape Horn, and enter the Polar Sea by 

 Behring's Strait, so as to arrive at Chamisso Island, in 

 Kotzebue Sound, by the 10th of July, 1826, there to 

 wait for the third expedition, under Franklin, of which 

 more presently. 



