CHAPTER XVII. 



VOYAGE OF THE RESOLUTE AND INTREPID. ARRIVAL AT DEALT ISLAMD. 



SLEDGE-PARTIES. PARRY'S SANDSTONE AGAIN. NEWS FROM TH8 



INVESTIGATOR. PIM's JOURNEY. MEETING WITH M'CLURE. RETURN 



TO THE RESOLUTE. MORE DEATHS REPORTED. ABANDONMENT OF THB 

 INVESTIGATOR. A WEARY SUMMER. CRESSWELL SENT WITH DIS- 

 PATCHES. INCIDENTS IN THE VOYAGE OF THE PHCENIX. LOSS OF THH 

 BREDALBANE TRANSPORT. DEATH OF BELLOT. HIS AMIABLE CHAR- 

 ACTER. THE PHO3NIX AND TALBOT SENT OUT. 



A PARENT'S solicitude for his son saved the crew of 

 the Investigator. We must now again take up the story 

 of Sir Edward Belcher's expedition, which we left at 

 Beechey Island on the 15th of August, 1852, just, sep- 

 arating into two divisions, - - one to proceed north, the 

 other west. It is the westward division with which we 

 have now to do. It was suggested to the British Ad- 

 miralty by Mr. Cresswell, who had a son with M'Clure, 

 that that part of Belcher's expedition which was des- 

 tined for Wellington Channel should be directed upon 

 Melville Island, as it was the opinion of General Sabine 

 and Captain Kellett that if Captains Collinson and 

 M'Clure were unable to reach that island with their 

 ships, still they would push in there with their sledges. 

 The senior lord of the Admiralty saw the soundness of 

 Mr. Cresswell's views ; and the Resolute and Intrepid, 

 ander Captains Kellett and M'Clintock, were ordered to 

 proceed to Melville Island. 



In nearing Assistance Bay, only thirty miles from 

 Beechey Island, at which point Captain Kellett was tc 

 leave a depot, the Resolute grounded, was left with but 



